placenamesArdcandrisk
Ard Caoinrois
Lewis linked the parish’s farming with lighter traffic on the Slaney.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ard Caoinrois · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ardcandrisk · English · main form
Place & story
Farming beside a working river
Ardcandrisk parish lay along the south bank of the Slaney, beside the road from Wexford towards Enniscorthy through Clonmore. Samuel Lewis reported in 1837 that tillage predominated and credited improvements to the use of drills for sowing. The navigable river gave agricultural produce a route to market: lighters could reach Enniscorthy, carrying corn and other farm products down to Wexford. Coal and other commodities travelled inland from the port. His account places the parish within this two-way river trade. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Coordinates
- 52.35472, -6.56270
- Mapped area
- 4.88 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2639 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ardcandrisk. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ardcandridge or Ardcandrisk, 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.