placenamesKildorrery
Cill Dairbhre
The estate database records a mid-nineteenth-century change of ownership at Springvale.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Dairbhre · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kildorrery · English · main form
Place & story
From Kingston’s tenant to Grehan’s agent
William Baily occupied Springvale in the early 1850s, holding the property from the Earl of Kingston, according to the University of Galway’s Landed Estates Database. Following Grove White’s account, the database dates George Grehan of Clonmeen’s purchase to 1855 and identifies John J. Therry, Grehan’s agent, as a resident. An Irish Tourist Association survey subsequently recorded Mrs Helen Clancy living there in 1942. The record places Springvale in Kildorrery civil parish, distinguishing this house from other properties bearing the same name. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Coordinates
- 52.26143, -8.42557
- Mapped area
- 13.5 km²
- Logainm ID
- 604 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kildorrery. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Springvale, property3274: Landed Estates Database · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.