placenamesCastlehaven
Gleann Bearcháin
Lewis recorded where the church’s stone came from and how early schooling was supported.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Gleann Bearcháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Castlehaven · English · main form
Place & story
Freestone from Horse Island
Samuel Lewis described the Church of Ireland building at Castletownshend as constructed from fawn-coloured freestone quarried on Horse Island. He put the cost at £1,500, with £1,250 from the Board of First Fruits and £250 from Colonel Townsend. His account links the church’s masonry with an island quarry and its building costs with two named sources of support. [2]
A school supported by subscriptions
An infants’ school was established at Castletownshend in 1835 and maintained by subscriptions. Lewis separately recorded boys’ and girls’ parochial schools supported by the rector and Colonel Townsend, as well as four hedge schools and a Sunday school elsewhere in the parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery West (E.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.52390, -9.22209 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 44.23 km²
- Logainm ID
- 537 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castlehaven. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castlehaven: 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.