placenamesKilrane
Cill Ruáin
Lewis’s 1837 parish account looked offshore to the navigation signals beside local fishing grounds.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Ruáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilrane · English · main form
Place & story
A watch station at Ballygeary
Samuel Lewis recorded a coastguard station at Ballygeary within the Wexford district in his 1837 account of Kilrane. He also identified Ballyhire as a source of good building stone. These were separate coastal activities in a parish facing Rosslare Bay and the open channel, beyond Wexford harbour. [2]
Signals on the offshore rock
Lewis described Tuskar lighthouse offshore, near waters fished by some parish inhabitants in summer. His account dated the tower to 1815 and described a revolving light with three faces, two bright and one deep red. In fog, bells were operated by the mechanism that turned the lights. This is a description of nineteenth-century equipment, rather than the lighthouse’s present lighting system. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilrane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilrane — 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.