placenamesClontead
Cluain Téide
Lewis’s parish account connects water transport with farming and milling near Kinsale.
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
- Cluain Téide · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clontead · English · main form
Place & story
Materials in, flour out
Samuel Lewis described sea sand as the principal manure used on Clontead’s farmland in 1837. Barges brought it from Kinsale Bay to Brownsmills, supplying land that produced wheat, barley, oats and potatoes. At Mullanadee, the flour mill known as Kinsale mill produced eight thousand barrels annually. That figure describes flour output, not grain deliveries or the quantity of sand carried; Lewis gives no barge-traffic total. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clontead. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clontead: 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.