placenamesCorkaree
Corca Raoi
Portnashangan’s quarries and a weekly court appear in an 1837 parish account.
Recorded locationCorkaree53.59557° N · 7.36708° 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
- Corca Raoi · Irish · main form
- Corkaree · English · main form
Place & story
Materials and local administration
Samuel Lewis recorded quarries producing fine black stone in Portnashangan parish in 1837, noting its use for paving flags as well as other purposes. The parish lay in Corkaree, beside Lough Owel and on the mail-coach road towards Longford. Knockdrin hosted petty sessions every Tuesday. These details place quarrying and regular local court business within the barony’s nineteenth-century working landscape. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Corkaree. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Portshangan: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.