placenamesGrenagh
Greanach
An unusually branched tree caught Lewis’s attention in his account of the wider parish.
Recorded locationGrenagh52.01162° N · 8.60744° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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
- Greanach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Grenagh · English · main form
Place & story
A recorded feature of the landscape
At Dawestown in Grenagh parish, Samuel Lewis recorded a flowering lime tree distinguished by sixteen very large, spreading branches. His description belongs to 1837 and establishes the tree as a noticed feature of the local landscape at that time; it does not establish that the same tree survives. Lewis also described the parish’s church as a ruin whose gables and side walls remained almost complete. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Barony
- Barretts
- Coordinates
- 52.01162, -8.60744
- Mapped area
- 54.52 km²
- Logainm ID
- 582 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Grenagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Grenaugh — 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.