placenamesKilcrohane
Cill Chrócháin
Lewis described communications and mineral prospects on the Cork peninsula in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chrócháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilcrohane · English · main form
Place & story
A tower on the ridge
A signal tower stood on the highest point of Kilcrohane’s east–west mountain ridge in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. It communicated with towers on Bere Island and at Three-Castle Head. His description places the peninsula between Bantry and Dunmanus bays within a wider coastal signalling network. [2]
Minerals without workings
Lewis recorded manganese, signs of copper ore and good-quality slate in the parish. He also stated that no attempt had yet been made to work these minerals. Their presence in his survey therefore records geological prospects at that date, rather than evidence of operating mines or slate quarries. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery West (W.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.58579, -9.71343 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 60.24 km²
- Logainm ID
- 600 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcrohane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcrohane, Cork: 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.