placenamesCarrigaline
Carraig Uí Leighin
Lewis linked milling with changes that brought cargo vessels up to the bridge.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Carraig Uí Leighin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Carrigaline · English · main form
Place & story
Twelve thousand sacks of flour
Samuel Lewis recorded two large flour mills belonging to Michael Roberts and Company in 1837. Together they ground about 12,000 sacks annually, most of it shipped to England through Cork. The river channel had recently been deepened by six feet, allowing vessels to unload at the bridge. His account connects production with improved access for cargo boats, without treating six feet as the channel’s resulting depth. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Barony
- Cork
- Barony
- Kerrycurrihy
- Coordinates
- 51.82750, -8.38928
- Mapped area
- 59.31 km²
- Logainm ID
- 531 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Carrigaline. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Carrigaline, a parish: 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.