placenamesClooney
Cluaine
Lewis records a mine at Ballylisky and its connection with the port of Clare.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cluaine · Irish · main form
- Clooney · English · main form
Place & story
Mining and coastal shipment
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Cloney, or Clonie, records the discovery of a lead mine at Ballylisky in 1834. He states that its ore was being shipped to Wales through Clare. The entry places mining within a parish otherwise described through tillage, bog and livestock fairs at Spancel Hill. It supplies a dated link between an inland mineral working and overseas trade, without naming a Welsh destination, mine operator or annual quantity exported. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Coordinates
- 52.88159, -8.85005
- Mapped area
- 43.15 km²
- Logainm ID
- 417 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clooney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cloney or Clonie, Bunratty: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-11-01. How this page was prepared.