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An Campa

Camp Lodge’s occupants, farmland and sale records preserve the history of this townland east of Tralee.

Recorded locationCamp52.22674° N · 9.50865° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • An Campa · Irish · main form
  • Camp · English · main form

Place & story

The cottage at Camp Lodge

Camp Lodge provides a documented focus for this Castleisland townland’s history. The University of Galway’s property record cites the Ordnance Survey Name Books of the 1830s, which describe a small single-storey cottage occupied by John Hussey. The house’s modest scale distinguishes it from the much larger residences found on some Kerry estates. Its history belongs to Camp near Castleisland, rather than the village of the same name on the Dingle Peninsula. [2]

The Hewson holding

At Griffith’s Valuation, Richard Chute leased Camp Lodge to George Hewson. The house was valued at £5 10 s and formed part of a farm of 350 acres. In 1883 lands belonging to George Massy Hewson at Camp were offered through the Land Judges’ Court, although the sale was adjourned. These records place the house within a wider agricultural holding and document a proposed change in its ownership. [2] [3]

Letting advertisements and an arms raid

Castleisland District Heritage records an 1864 advertisement offering Camp Lodge with more than thirty-two acres for a short lease. Its account also notes an arms raid in August 1885, when Hewson was assaulted while at home with his daughters. Con O’Connor was recorded as the owner in 1930. The sequence follows the property through letting, local unrest and a later household, rather than treating its occupants as a single continuous family. [4]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Kerry
Civil parish
Castleisland
Coordinates
52.22674, -9.50865
Mapped area
1.44 km²
Logainm ID
24458 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1901 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Camp. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Camp Lodge · University of Galway,Landed Estates
  3. Hewson (Trughanacmy) · University of Galway,Landed Estates
  4. Some Historic Houses of the Castleisland District: Camp Lodge · Castleisland District Heritage
  5. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-02-10. How this page was prepared.