placenamesCrazy Corner
A small police station connects this Westmeath locality with debates over rural policing.
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
- Crazy Corner · English · main form
Place & story
A rural police station
Crazy Corner had a police barracks which was evacuated during the War of Independence. Westmeath County Council places its withdrawal within the Royal Irish Constabulary’s wider retreat from rural stations in 1920, when police concentrated in larger towns. The council does not identify Crazy Corner among the evacuated barracks burned that Easter. [2]
A barracks debated in the Dáil
The locality reappeared in a Dáil debate on police spending on 7 November 1928. Deputy Kennedy questioned the need for a Garda barracks at Crazy Corner, describing an isolated rural station a few miles from Mullingar. He argued that improved motor transport could allow policing from the town. His remarks record a contemporary argument over the cost and location of rural policing. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Westmeath
- Civil parish
- Rathconnell
- Within
- Knockdrin
- Within
- Brittas
- Within
- Loughagar More
- Coordinates
- 53.56864, -7.27513
- Logainm ID
- 108013 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Crazy Corner. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Police Stations Attacked in Westmeath · Westmeath County Council, Decade of Centenaries
- Dáil Éireann: Vote32, Garda Síochána,7November1928 · Houses of the Oireachtas
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-06-08. How this page was prepared.