placenamesCarbery West (E.D.)
Cairbrigh Thiar (an Roinn Thoir)
An 1837 account records grain exports and a brewery serving neighbouring towns.
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
- Cairbrigh Thiar (an Roinn Thoir) · Irish · main form · validated name
- Carbery West (E.D.) · English · main form
Place & story
Stores, mills and porter
Samuel Lewis described Skibbereen’s large corn stores and flour exported from J. Clark’s mills beside the Ilen. He also recorded a porter brewery established in 1809, owned by Daniel McCarthy and supplying surrounding towns. The river connected these industries with Baltimore harbour, although vessels of two hundred tons could reach only Oldcourt, two miles below Skibbereen. His account places local manufacture within a trading district linked to the coast through the tidal river. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Carbery West (E.D.). Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Skibbereen: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.