placenamesLitter
Leitir
Lewis recorded how the Cork parish used its river, stone and smaller streams.
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
- Leitir · Irish · main form · validated name
- Litter · English · main form
Place & story
Water and local work
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account identifies Litter, also called Castlehyde, as a Cork parish divided into two nearly equal parts by the Blackwater. A flour mill on the southern side drew its power from a mountain stream flowing through a wooded glen. Building and road stone came from workings on both sides of the river; limestone from the northern side was also burnt for agricultural use. [2]
A changing crossing
Within the Castlehyde demesne, Lewis recorded the replacement of an earlier wooden bridge by a ferry a little farther east. He also described occasional sittings of the manor court, which could recover debts up to forty shillings in the former currency. These details describe the crossing and court in his period, rather than present transport or legal arrangements. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Barony
- Condons and Clangibbon
- Coordinates
- 52.14543, -8.33138
- Mapped area
- 22.44 km²
- Logainm ID
- 650 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Litter. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Litter, 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.