placenamesKilcrumper
Cill Chruimthir
Lewis recorded woollen manufacture and substantial stone working in the wider parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chruimthir · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilcrumper · English · main form
Place & story
Broadcloth at Araglyn
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 entry for Kilcrumper records extensive woollen mills at Araglyn, operated by Paulet Higgins to manufacture broadcloth. His notice places the works within his description of the wider parish, near the meeting of the Funcheon and Blackwater. It names the operator and product without giving a workforce, annual output or opening date. [2]
Stone working and a riverside ruin
Lewis also recorded limestone and brownstone worked extensively for manure and building. Alongside these economic activities, he described the surviving castellated mansion of Ballyhindon on a rocky height over the Funcheon. That is a historical description of remains visible in 1837; it supplies neither a construction date for the mansion nor an account of how it became ruined. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Coordinates
- 52.17871, -8.26597
- Mapped area
- 13.74 km²
- Logainm ID
- 601 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcrumper. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcrumper: 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.