placenamesCastleboy
An Caisleán Buí
Lewis recorded Cloghy’s local jurisdiction in the nineteenth-century Ards.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Caisleán Buí · Irish · main form
- Castleboy · English · main form
Place & story
A court held every three weeks
Writing in 1837, Samuel Lewis described Castleboy under the names Castlebuoy and Saint Johnstown as an extra-parochial liberty on Cloghy Bay. The Echlin family possessed the manor of Cloghy, whose court met once every three weeks. Its jurisdiction extended beyond the liberty to Slanes, Ballytrustin and part of Witter. Lewis stated that claims up to five pounds could be recovered there through attachment or civil-bill proceedings. The account records a local court’s wider reach, rather than a single parish’s boundaries. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Ards Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.42631, -5.48809 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 5.53 km²
- Logainm ID
- 65691 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castleboy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castlebuoy or Saint Johnstown, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.