placenamesSaint Patrick's
Cill Chuáin
Lewis’s account of Kilquane, or Saint Patrick’s North, records industry north of the Shannon.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chuáin · Irish · main form
- Saint Patrick's · English · main form
Place & story
Milling and local courts
Samuel Lewis described the Clare district of Kilquane, also called Saint Patrick’s North, in 1837. On the Blackwater, which joins the Shannon, he recorded two large flour mills belonging to S. Caswell. The account also identifies limestone used for building and burned to provide agricultural manure. At Athlunkard and Parteen, manorial courts met occasionally to recover small debts. These observations concern the district north of the Shannon, rather than the parish’s separate Limerick side. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.70308, -8.61457
- Mapped area
- 15.81 km²
- Logainm ID
- 474 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Saint Patrick's. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilquane, Clare — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.