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Gortclohy

Gort Cloiche

Road excavations uncovered traces of stone-tool working in this Kilflyn parish townland.

Recorded locationGortclohy52.34700° N · 9.58548° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

clochstone, stone buildinggortfield

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

  • Gort Cloiche · Irish · main form
  • Gortclohy · English · main form

Place & story

Waste from making tools

Patricia Long’s account of the 2011 N69 excavations describes an isolated pit at Gortclohy containing waste flakes of flint and chert. Their form indicated tool manufacture or resharpening during the period when Beaker pottery was used. Alder charcoal from the pit gave a calibrated radiocarbon range of 2132–1920 BC. The flakes were production waste, rather than finished tools; the account does not report Beaker pottery from this pit. [2]

Thirteen occupied houses

The 1911 census counted seventy-two inhabitants in Gortclohy, thirty-three male and thirty-nine female, in thirteen occupied houses. Its population had been 112 in 1891 and seventy-three in 1901. The townland covered 795 acres, three roods and nineteen perches, within Kilflyn parish and electoral division, Clanmaurice barony, Tralee No. 1 dispensary district and Tralee Poor Law Union. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Kerry
Civil parish
Kilflyn
Coordinates
52.34700, -9.58548
Mapped area
3.22 km²
Logainm ID
24568 ↗

People & family history

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

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Gortclohy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. New Discoveries near Kilflynn, Co. Kerry, pages 46–48 · Patricia Long, Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society
  3. Census of Ireland 1911: County Kerry, Table VII, printed page 67 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
  4. 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.