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Barony

Clanmaurice

Clann Mhuiris

Ballyheigue’s coastal setting shaped its fields, fuel grounds and building materials.

Rough dry-stone field wall on Kerry Head with green coastal pasture and the Dingle Peninsula across the sea.
Illustration, dry-stone wall and fields on Kerry Head in Clanmaurice barony, as photographed in October 2023
Recorded locationClanmaurice52.40776° N · 9.70060° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

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

  • Clann Mhuiris · Irish · main form
  • Clanmaurice · English · main form

Place & story

Land behind the dunes

Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Ballyheigue parish in Clanmaurice describes cultivated land improved with material gathered from the sea. Sand hills protected some low boggy ground from seawater, while the exposed Atlantic setting limited tree growth. Brown building stone was available near the shore. These observations record a working coastal landscape that combined farming and local resources with the difficulties of weather and exposure around Kerry Head. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Barony
County
Kerry
Coordinates
52.40776, -9.70060
Mapped area
488.89 km²
Logainm ID
94 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Clanmaurice. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Ballyheigue: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
  3. Dry-stone wall and fields on Kerry Head illustration: based on a A fine stone wall and a fine view too by Neville Goodman. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.