placenamesCastleknock
Caisleán Cnucha
Lewis distinguished older riverside mills from a newer worsted factory at Blanchardstown.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Caisleán Cnucha · Irish · main form · validated name
- Castleknock · English · main form
Place & story
Two scales of textile employment
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Castleknock parish account describes three woollen mills on the Liffey employing more than sixty people during winter. They made several types of cloth, including frieze and kersey. Separately, a recently established factory at Blanchardstown made worsted and worsted yarn and employed between eighty and a hundred people. The numbers belong to different enterprises: the seasonal riverside total should not be treated as the workforce of each mill or combined into one factory’s employment figure. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castleknock. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castleknock: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.