placenamesArdcavan
Ard Chaomháin
Lewis placed Ardcolme’s church within Ardcavan’s part of Castlebridge.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ard Chaomháin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ardcavan · English · main form
Place & story
The church at Castlebridge
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Castlebridge account places Ardcolme’s parish church on the site of the village’s former castle, within the portion of Castlebridge belonging to Ardcavan parish. The church’s ecclesiastical name therefore does not by itself identify the civil parish containing the building. Lewis recorded a recent grant of £310 18s. 6d. from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for repairs. [2]
Woodland beside the estuary
In his separate Ardcavan entry, Lewis described the old church’s ruins near Wexford harbour and substantial castle remains at Ballytramont. From Ballytramont, about sixty-five statute acres of coppice woodland stretched along the estuary. These descriptions belong to his nineteenth-century account; they do not establish the present condition or extent of the woodland and ruins. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Coordinates
- 52.37741, -6.45134
- Mapped area
- 10.26 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2516 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ardcavan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castlebridge, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Ardcavan, 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.