placenamesClohamon
Cloch Ámainn
Clohamon’s surviving mill and five-arched bridge recall the village’s industrial and transport history on the River Slaney.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cloch Ámainn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clohamon · English · main form
Place & story
William Lewis’s mill
The three-storey mill at Clohamon was built in 1840 by William Lewis. Its long elevations had ten window bays, with granite sills and iron glazing bars. It supplemented an adjacent cotton factory recorded on the first Ordnance Survey map. The architectural inventory gives 1868 as the mill’s closure date and records that a later attempt to obtain a government-backed loan under the 1924 Trade Loans legislation was unsuccessful. [2]
The bridge and its repair
Clohamon Bridge crosses the Slaney on five segmental arches. Granite dressings contrast with the rubble stone of the walls, and triangular cutwaters face upstream. Already standing by 1839, the bridge was partly reconstructed in 1917 for Enniscorthy Rural Council. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Civil parish
- Kilrush
- Within
- Clohamon
- Coordinates
- 52.63814, -6.61129 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413879 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clohamon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clohamon mill, record 15700916 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Clohamon Bridge, Ryland Upper, record 15700912 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.