placenamesSwan
An Eala
Brick kilns and the former manager’s house preserve evidence of the village’s industrial past.
Recorded locationSwan52.88648° N · 7.15778° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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
- An Eala · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Swan · English · main form
Place & story
Kilns and chimneys
Fleming’s Fireclays at Slatt Lower retains two rounded brick beehive kilns, dated to about 1935 by the architectural survey. Two freestanding chimneys on the site carry the dates 1948 and 1953. [2]
The manager’s house
The works also had a brick manager’s house, built around 1940. Its single-storey main range has a dormer attic and an L-shaped plan. A plaque on the west wall commemorates Patrick Joseph Fleming. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Slievemargy
- Civil parish
- Rathaspick
- Within
- Slatt Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.88648, -7.15778
- Logainm ID
- 28843 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Swan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Fleming’s Fireclays kilns (12803103) · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Fleming’s Fireclays manager’s house (12803104) · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.