placenamesCoalbrook
Glaise an Ghuail
Coalbrook’s history is closely tied to the Langley family, their country house and the coal workings of the Slieveardagh hills.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Glaise an Ghuail · Irish · main form · validated name
- Coalbrook · English · main form
Place & story
Coal and steam power
Charles Langley worked his Coalbrook-area colliery in the early nineteenth century. The local mining heritage project identifies his works at Knockalonga Lisnamrock as the site of the Slieveardagh coalfield’s first steam engine, installed before 1827. The Mining Company of Ireland later leased the Langley workings; in 1855–1856 it paid Henry Langley £17,000 for the lease of Coalbrook Colliery. [2]
Coalbrook House
Coalbrook House was a Langley home through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 1838, the Ordnance Survey Name Books described almost half its demesne as woodland and ornamental grounds. Henry Langley owned the property outright in the mid-nineteenth century. By 1906 George Langley occupied it, when its buildings were valued at more than £41. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry
- Coordinates
- 52.61854, -7.57177 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414511 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Coalbrook. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The Langley Family Colliery — Coalbrook Knockalonga Lisnamrock · Tipperary Coalmines heritage project
- Coalbrook, property 3967 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-02-08. How this page was prepared.