placenamesKinalea
Cineál Aodha
Lewis distinguished Ringabella’s large mining workforce from discontinued lead workings at Ahnacarriga.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Cineál Aodha · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kinalea · English · main form
Place & story
Different fortunes within Tracton parish
In Tracton parish, Samuel Lewis recorded more than 400 people employed at the Ringabella mining works in 1837. An English mining company conducted the operation. He contrasted these active workings with lead mines at Ahnacarriga, on the Earl of Shannon’s property, which had been worked earlier but were then discontinued. Nearby slate quarries were only poorly worked. His account presents several different levels of extraction within the same parish, rather than one uniformly thriving mining district. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kinalea. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tracton: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.