placenamesCarrigrohanebeg
Carraig Ruacháin Bheag
Lewis described farms supplying Cork with milk and butter beside a valley with older paper mills and iron forges.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Carraig Ruacháin Bheag · Irish · main form · validated name
- Carrigrohanebeg · English · main form
Place & story
A rural economy near the city
Farmers in Carrigrohanebeg concentrated on dairying to supply Cork with milk and butter, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Pasture was the main land use. Along the river he called the Awenbeg or Shawnagh, he recorded former paper-manufacturing mills and iron forges. These were already described as past activities, distinct from the continuing dairy trade. The Lee bounded the parish to the south, where overflowing water occasionally irrigated its meadows. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Coordinates
- 51.90560, -8.59699
- Mapped area
- 8.32 km²
- Logainm ID
- 535 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Carrigrohanebeg. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Carrigrohanbeg in 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.