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Civil parish

Quin

Cuinche

Knappogue and Craggaunowen connect the parish with collections of historical documents, art and antiquities.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of Restored Craggaunowen Castle, County Clare, as photographed in June 2015.
Illustration, Restored Craggaunowen Castle, County Clare, as photographed in June 2015
Recorded locationQuin52.81624° N · 8.83428° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

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

  • Cuinche · Irish · main form
  • Quin · English · main form

Place & story

People & connections

Lord Dunboyne’s paper collections

Lord Dunboyne of Knappogue Castle collected estate-sale rentals, newspaper cuttings and other material concerning County Clare. The University of Galway catalogue identifies bound sale rentals and Griffith’s Valuation volumes in its library, and 59 further volumes in the National Library of Ireland. Those include contemporary affairs, legal proceedings and diocesan material. The surviving collections give this nineteenth-century landowner a place in the preservation of records as well as in the history of the estate. [2]

People & connections

Craggaunowen and the Hunts

Craggaunowen Castle, also within Quin civil parish, was restored by John and Gertrude Hunt. The Hunt Museum’s own history records the establishment of a trust in 1974 to hold both their collection and the tower-house property for the people of Ireland. Part of the collection was subsequently displayed at the National Institute of Higher Education in Limerick in 1978, before the museum acquired its later permanent home. [3] [4]

Geographic information

Place type
Civil parish
County
Clare
Coordinates
52.81624, -8.83428
Mapped area
38.85 km²
Logainm ID
469 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Quin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Butler of Knappogue, estate1997 · University of Galway Landed Estates Database
  3. Hunt Collection History · The Hunt Museum
  4. Caswell estate1934: Craggaunowen civil-parish identification · University of Galway Landed Estates Database
  5. Restored Craggaunowen Castle, County Clare, as photographed in June 2015 illustration: based on a Castles of Munster: Craggaunowen (1) by Mike Searle. 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 2021-11-01. How this page was prepared.