placenamesIslandikane
Oileán Uí Chéin
Lewis’s 1837 account connects the Isles of Icane with a coast used for mineral extraction.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Oileán Uí Chéin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Islandikane · English · main form
Place & story
A nineteenth-century coastal description
Samuel Lewis described several offshore rocks, partly grass-covered, as the Isles of Icane in his 1837 account of Islandikane parish. Farther west he noted column-shaped rocks projecting into the sea. He also reported extensive extraction of lead and indications of other metals. The account preserves a named coastal feature alongside evidence of mineral working, but does not identify the individual workings, their operators or the quantities produced. Indications of other metals should not be read as evidence that those metals were mined. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.15247, -7.22984 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 18.67 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2434 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Islandikane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Island-Icane: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.