placenamesClareabbey
Mainistir an Chláir
Lewis records farming along the Fergus and a manor court at Clare.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Mainistir an Chláir · Irish · main form
- Clareabbey · English · main form
Place & story
The river shore and the market town
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Clare-Abbey account describes land used principally for pasture and records seaweed gathered along the Fergus shores for manure. His account also places a monthly seneschal’s court at Clare for recovering small debts within the manor of Clonroad, alongside two annual fairs. These details document working uses of the parish landscape and the town’s recurring business. The court’s monthly schedule applies to the sitting at Clare, rather than every court held elsewhere for the same manor. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clareabbey. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clare-Abbey: 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.