placenamesCastletown
Baile an Chaisleáin
The first Ordnance Survey describes the Waller demesne in Kilcornan parish.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Chaisleáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Castletown · English · main form
Place & story
Melons and cucumbers under frames
The 1839–40 field-name book describes Castletown as the demesne of the Reverend William Waller. Around the house stood plantations of forest trees which the survey estimated at about sixty years old. Roughly ten chains south of the house was a garden enclosed by a fourteen-foot wall. It contained fruit grown against the walls, bush fruit, and frames for melons and cucumbers. This account records the estate landscape at the time of the survey. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Kenry
- Civil parish
- Kilcornan
- Within
- Castletown
- Coordinates
- 52.64998, -8.90426
- Mapped area
- 2.93 km²
- Logainm ID
- 32002 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castletown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ordnance Survey field-name books1839–40: Kilcornan, printed pp891–892 · Ordnance Survey of Ireland; place-names explained and fixed by John O’Donovan; historical transcription hosted by Limerick Local Studies
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.