placenamesKilbrittain
Cill Briotáin
Lewis described several kinds of work beyond cultivation in the coastal parish.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Briotáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbrittain · English · main form
Place & story
A varied working landscape
Samuel Lewis recorded parishioners fishing and weaving cotton cords in Kilbrittain in 1837. His account also mentions extensive flour mills and a fulling mill on a small river flowing into the bay, alongside a slate quarry. Sand brought from the shore was the principal manure for the farmland. These details describe a coastal parish whose work included textile production, processing grain and using local stone, as well as farming and fishing. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (E.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.68939, -8.72221
- Mapped area
- 19.65 km²
- Logainm ID
- 727 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbrittain. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbritain parish, 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.