placenamesKilcowan
Cill Chomháin
Lewis recorded two sources of agricultural manure and the dimensions of Baldwinstown’s castle.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chomháin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilcowan · English · main form
Place & story
Resources from lough and quarry
Kilcowan parish lay beside the lough formed by Ballyteigue’s burrow in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of County Wexford. The cultivated land received seaweed gathered from the lough and lime from limestone quarried at Baldwinstown. His entry connects the nearby water and worked stone with farming, without identifying individual quarry operators or giving quantities produced. [2]
The castle near Baldwinstown
Near Baldwinstown village, Lewis described a tall castle tower about thirty feet square, with walls nearly thirteen feet thick at the base. The thirty-foot figure concerns the plan of the tower, rather than its height. These approximate dimensions belong to his historical description and do not establish a present-day measured survey or the extent of later loss and alteration. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcowan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcowan, 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.