placenamesCastletown Kinneigh
Baile Chaisleáin Chinn Eich
An early village account and the rediscovery of St Joseph's altar stone offer two views of Castletown Kinneigh's past.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Chaisleáin Chinn Eich · Irish · main form · validated name
- Castletown Kinneigh · English · main form
Place & story
The village in 1837
Samuel Lewis's 1837 dictionary recorded 314 inhabitants and fifty-seven cabins at Castletown in Kinneigh parish. Livestock fairs were held on New Year's Day, Easter Tuesday, 12 May and 4 September, trading cattle, sheep and pigs. Lewis also described an earlier settlement that had declined after being sacked during the war of 1641; that explanation belongs to his nineteenth-century account. [2]
St Joseph's and its rediscovered altar stone
In November 2016, work on St Joseph's Church uncovered its original altar stone inside the altar assembled in 1991. Parish priest Tom Hayes reported that the stone bore Bishop William Delany's name and the date 1859, resolving local uncertainty over the church's dedication. After refurbishment, St Joseph's reopened on 10 September 2017. The work included a new entrance, improved access and the restoration of historic furnishings, including its nineteenth-century altar and Crucifixion painting. [3] [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (W.D.)
- Civil parish
- Kinneigh
- Coordinates
- 51.76930, -8.95371
- Logainm ID
- 129657 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castletown Kinneigh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castletown, a village — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- ‘New’ altar for Castletown Church, 22 November 2016 — Parish History archive · Fr Tom Hayes, Enniskeane and Desertserges Parish
- Castletown Church reopens, 10 September 2017 · Enniskeane and Desertserges Parish
- Kinneigh Round Tower near Castletown Kinneigh, County Cork illustration: based on a Kinneigh Round Tower by Mike Searle. 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 2026-08-24. How this page was prepared.