placenamesCarran
An Carn
An 1837 description places sheep farming, former copper workings and small schools within the wider Burren parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Carn · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Carran · English · main form
Place & story
Pasture and former mines
Lewis described Carran parish as chiefly rocky pasture, with sheep making up the principal part of farmers’ livestock. Only a small proportion was tilled. Limestone was abundant, and copper mines had formerly been worked but were already out of use when his account appeared in 1837. This was a predominantly pastoral economy with traces of an earlier extractive industry. [2]
Schools and church districts
Two pay schools taught about ninety boys and sixty girls in Lewis’s parish account. The Catholic district extended beyond Carran to include Noughaval and Kilcorney, with chapels at Crughville in Carran and at Noughaval village. The distinction matters: the wider church district contained several civil parishes, while the school figures were reported under Carran itself. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Carran. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Carrune, Carron or Carne — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- The Carran Polje landscape, County Clare, as photographed in September 2015 illustration: based on a View across the Carran Polje by Gordon Hatton. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.