placenamesClonlost
Cluain Loiste
Clonlost in Rathconnell parish retains a record of both landed-estate life and more modest rural building traditions.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Loiste · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clonlost · English · main form
Place & story
The Nugent and Palmer house
The Nugents were established at Clonlost from the seventeenth century. Their later house, recorded on the first Ordnance Survey map within a large demesne, was a two-storey building with five bays dating from the late eighteenth century. Captain John J. Nugent owned it outright when Griffith’s Valuation was published in 1854, with the house valued at £40. It passed through his daughter’s marriage to the Palmer family, whose members remained there into the early twentieth century. [2]
A cottage with a windbreak porch
A smaller house in Clonlost, dated by the architectural inventory to around 1800, has a distinctive semicircular windbreak porch. Its small windows include unusual iron pivot casements. The inventory recorded a steep corrugated-iron roof, suggesting an earlier thatched covering, and a substantial buttress supporting one corner. The cottage’s outbuildings stood behind it, away from the road. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Westmeath
- Civil parish
- Rathconnell
- Within
- Clonlost
- Coordinates
- 53.54215, -7.18535 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413761 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonlost. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clonlost house, property 5921 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
- Clonlost vernacular cottage, record 15402004 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.