placenamesCloghran
Clochrán
Lewis distinguished abundant limestone from deposits that had not proved profitable.
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
- Clochrán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cloghran · English · main form
Place & story
A quarry near the church
Cloghran near Swords had a limestone quarry close to its church when Samuel Lewis described the parish in 1837. Fossils occurred in the stone, while copper and lead ores lay beneath the quarry. Lewis reported that neither metal had yet been worked profitably. That qualification concerns the success of extraction, rather than proving that no mining had been attempted. His account places this mineral resource beside the Dublin–Swords road, distinct from the other Dublin parish also called Cloghran. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloghran. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cloghran or Cloghran-Swords, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-01-19. How this page was prepared.