placenamesClonlonan
Cluain Lonáin
Lewis recorded a monthly court alternating between Moate and Baylin in the nineteenth-century barony.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Lonáin · Irish · main form
- Clonlonan · English · main form
Place & story
Alternating court venues
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Ballyloughloe, a parish in Clonlonan, records a manorial court held alternately at Moate and Baylin on the first Monday of each month. The arrangement distributed the court’s sittings between two places rather than fixing every session at one venue. It belongs to the historical administration of this part of Westmeath; it does not describe present court services. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonlonan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyloughloe: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-02-07. How this page was prepared.