placenamesCarncastle
Carn an Chaistil
Lewis distinguished stone already being used from a mineral vein he considered a prospect for working.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Carn an Chaistil · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Carncastle · English · main form
Place & story
Stone in work and landscape
In 1837 Samuel Lewis recorded basalt being quarried in Carncastle parish for buildings and road repairs. He also described a formation called the Black Cave as an opening through a mass of basalt. A feldspar vein attracted his attention as potentially worth working. That last observation was an assessment of a possible resource, rather than a statement that a feldspar mine was operating. These notices connect the parish’s rock formations with both recorded quarrying and nineteenth-century interest in further extraction. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Glenarm Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.89185, -5.86454 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 39.49 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61315 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Carncastle. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Carncastle — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.