placenamesCullen
Cuillinn
The Duhallow parish included a mining venture as well as the farms north of the Blackwater.
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
- Cuillinn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cullen · English · main form
Place & story
A changing rural landscape
Samuel Lewis described Cullen parish in 1837 as covering 13,409 acres beside the Blackwater and the new government road between Killarney and Mallow. His account records a mixture of rough ground, cultivated fields and extensive bog. Agriculture was improving, although the land varied considerably in quality. This was a description of the wider parish, extending beyond Cullen village. [2]
Mining at Churchhill
The parish also had a small extractive industry. Lewis reported that a culm mine near Churchhill had been operating for six years and employed about thirty people. Brownstone suitable for building was another local resource. These details place mining and construction materials alongside farming in the parish economy of the early nineteenth century. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cullen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cullen in Duhallow — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis; reproduced by the Great Britain Historical GIS project
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.