placenamesInchigeelagh
Inse Geimhleach
Lewis distinguished successive building campaigns at Inchigeelagh and Ballingeary.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Inse Geimhleach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Inchigeelagh · English · main form
Place & story
Building and enlargement
In his 1837 parish account, Samuel Lewis dated Inchigeelagh’s Catholic chapel to 1820 and a substantial enlargement to 1830. He put the combined expense at £300. At Ballingeary, he recorded a chapel built in 1809 and subsequently enlarged with a cross-building, at a total expense of £500. The figures cover building and enlargement together. They describe two separate chapels serving the wider parish, rather than two phases of a single village church. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (W.D.)
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Coordinates
- 51.83281, -9.17167
- Mapped area
- 183.68 km²
- Logainm ID
- 587 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Inchigeelagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Inchegeelagh or Eveleary: 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.