placenamesKilcoe
Cill Chóiche
Lewis’s 1837 account connects small rocky plots with horses, mills and quays.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chóiche · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilcoe · English · main form
Place & story
Working patches between the rocks
Samuel Lewis described cultivation in Kilcoe as work carried out chiefly with the spade on small patches among exposed rocks. His 1837 account reported that manure was carried to these plots on horseback and produce removed in the same way. He estimated that no more than a third of the parish was cultivated, with some higher ground used for young cattle. These are historical observations of the parish’s farming landscape, rather than a description of present-day land use. [2]
Building beside the Roaring Water
In the river glen, Lewis identified Roaring Water House as J. O’Sullivan’s residence. He credited O’Sullivan with erecting mills, corn stores and quays along the riverbank. Those facilities belong to the parish’s recorded commercial history, distinct from Kilcoe Castle and the old church ruins nearer the shore. Lewis did not give a construction year or an output figure for the mills. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery West (W.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.56666, -9.41680 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 21.43 km²
- Logainm ID
- 597 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcoe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcoe — 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.