placenamesCoollegreane
Cúl le Gréin
Coollegreane in Inishmagrath parish has a small but revealing place in Leitrim’s record of traditional stone sweathouses.
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
- Cúl le Gréin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Coollegreane · English · main form
- Cooligrain · English · main form · local name
Place & story
A sweathouse moved from its site
The Leitrim Sweathouse Project recorded two accounts of a structure being moved from Coollegreane and rebuilt behind a community centre during the 1980s. The researchers noted that this could explain why the archaeological survey found no visible remains at the recorded Coollegreane site in 1991. The relocation is reported local testimony, rather than a fully documented reconstruction history. [2]
The townland in 1911
The 1911 census recorded 90 people in Coollegreane townland, compared with 88 in 1901 and 104 in 1891. Nineteen of its twenty houses were inhabited. These figures describe the whole townland, including its dispersed dwellings, rather than a separately returned village. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Leitrim
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Civil parish
- Inishmagrath
- Within
- Coollegreane
- Coordinates
- 54.21882, -8.04599 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413907 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Coollegreane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Leitrim Sweathouse Project Report 2021: Incidental Information · Leitrim County Council, Leitrim Sweathouse Project
- Census of Ireland 1911, County of Leitrim, Table VII, p.25 · Census Commissioners; original report reproduced by Central Statistics Office
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.