placenamesKerrycurrihy
Ciarraí Cuirche
Lewis traced two sources of agricultural material used in the parish.
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
- Ciarraí Cuirche · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kerrycurrihy · English · main form
Place & story
Coastal sand and Carrigaline lime
Kilmoney’s farmers used sea sand brought from Crosshaven as their principal manure, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. In some places they also used lime obtained from Carrigaline. These supplies connected cultivated fields in Kerrycurrihy with neighbouring coastal and riverside settlements. Lewis described most of Kilmoney’s land as under cultivation, with about fifty acres of woodland and a further hundred classed together as bog and waste. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kerrycurrihy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmoney, Cork: 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.