placenames1901 census
43People recorded
7Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Quill 16
- Nash 7
- Reidy 7
- OSullivan 5
- Dowde 3
Cloghaneleskirt
Clochán Deiscirt
The Kilflyn parish townland has a documented population history and a later place in Kerry’s wind-farm development.
Recorded locationCloghaneleskirt52.34489° N · 9.52804° 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
- Clochán Deiscirt · Irish · main form
- Cloghaneleskirt · English · main form
Place & story
Seven houses in 1911
The 1911 census recorded thirty-nine inhabitants in Cloghaneleskirt, twenty-one male and eighteen female, living in seven occupied houses. The population had been fifty-two in 1891 and forty-three in 1901. The return places the townland in Kilflyn parish and electoral division, in Clanmaurice barony, and gives its area as 875 acres and twenty-four perches. [2]
The wind farm’s early permissions
Robert Speer’s 2016 planning inspector’s report records permission granted on 15 December 2003 for five two-megawatt wind turbines at Cloghaneleskirt, with service roads, a control house and a temporary monitoring mast. Further permission in May 2014 covered an access track, borrow pit and substation building at Cloghaneleskirt and Lyracrumpane. The report’s own appeal concerned a later grid-connection alteration in the separate townlands of Cloghboola and Glantaunyalkeen. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Civil parish
- Kilflyn
- Coordinates
- 52.34489, -9.52804
- Mapped area
- 3.54 km²
- Logainm ID
- 24564 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
39People recorded
7Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Nash 11
- Reidy 6
- Moriarty 5
- OSullivan 5
- Quille 5
1926 census
39People recorded
7Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Nash 8
- Dillon 6
- Moriarty 6
- O'Sullivan 4
- Quill 4
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloghaneleskirt. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Kerry, printed p 67 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Alexander Thom & Company, 1912
- Inspector’s report PL08.246205, pp 1–6 · Robert Speer, An Bord Pleanála
- 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 2021-02-11. How this page was prepared.