placenamesIraghticonnor
Oireacht Uí Chonchúir
Lewis connected Shannon transport with farming and street paving around Tarbert.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Oireacht Uí Chonchúir · Irish · main form
- Iraghticonnor · English · main form
Place & story
Materials carried along the Shannon
Boats carrying turf from Tarbert to Limerick also brought limestone from Askeaton for agricultural use, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Kilnaughten account. A quarry on Colonel Halliburton’s estate supplied paving flags to Limerick and other places, as well as stone for Tarbert’s bridewell and new Catholic chapel. These movements connect local land improvement and construction with the working river, rather than describing a trade confined to Tarbert town. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Iraghticonnor. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilnaughten: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.