placenamesHollywood
Cillín Chaoimhín
An 1837 account distinguishes Hollywood’s small village from a much larger farming parish along the Liffey.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cillín Chaoimhín · Irish · main form
- Hollywood · English · main form
Place & story
A parish larger than its village
Samuel Lewis recorded 2,850 inhabitants in Hollywood parish in 1837, but only 161 in the village. His account distinguished Hollywood Boleys, with 1,550 people, from Hollywood Lowlands, with 1,300. The parish lay on the Liffey and on the mail-coach road linking Dublin with Baltinglass and Tullow, placing its small settlement within a wider network of travel. [2]
Farming, bog and the glen
Lewis estimated the parish at 18,000 statute acres. Mountain and heath occupied much of its surface, with bog also prominent; cultivated land was divided between pasture and tillage. He noted that Tyrone Lodge, belonging to Lord William Beresford, had been burned during the 1798 rebellion and remained unreconstructed, although its wooded demesne and glen survived in the landscape. [2]
Fairs and classrooms
The village's twenty-seven houses hosted four yearly fairs, on 1 February, 3 May, 1 August and 1 November, according to Lewis. Education extended beyond the village: a subscription-supported parochial school taught about one hundred children, while four private schools taught about 140. His account also recorded the Catholic chapel erected in 1831 and the parish's connection with Ballymore Eustace. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.06966, -6.53646
- Mapped area
- 74.45 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2694 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Hollywood. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Hollywood, Lower Talbotstown, Wicklow, 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.