placenamesClenor
Claonúir
Lewis linked agricultural improvement with Pierce Nagle and described a small mineral working.
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
- Claonúir · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clenor · English · main form
Place & story
Improving and testing the land
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Clenor credited Pierce Nagle with introducing irrigation and other agricultural improvements. Limestone was worked for building and farming purposes. Lewis also reported culm and a shaft from which specimens had been obtained, without describing a producing mine. The parish lay north of the Blackwater on the Mallow–Castletownroche road. About two-thirds of its land was arable and the remainder pasture in his account, with a small quantity of wet bog also noted. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clenor. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clenore, 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.