placenamesCarnew
Carn an Bhua
Lewis describes local lending and an association providing spinning and weaving employment before the Famine.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Carn an Bhua · Irish · main form
- Carnew · English · main form
Place & story
Small loans repaid weekly
A loan fund was established at Carnew in 1834 and administered by a committee. Samuel Lewis reported that its loans amounted to about £200 weekly in December 1836, with borrowers repaying one shilling per pound each week. He stated that no money had been lost through repayment failures at that point; this is his contemporary report rather than evidence of the fund’s later performance. [2]
Lending and charitable provision
One quarter of the loan fund’s profits went to charitable purposes, according to Lewis. His 1837 account also records an association, supervised by women of the town and neighbourhood, which employed poor people in spinning and weaving. These were distinct activities: the entry does not establish that the lending fund financed the textile work. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Coordinates
- 52.72896, -6.51534
- Mapped area
- 94.63 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2678 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Carnew. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Carnew: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.