placenamesCastletown
Baile an Chaisleáin
The 1839–40 field-name books record named features across Castletown Conyers townland.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Chaisleáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Castletown · English · main form
- Castletown Conyers · English · main form · local name
Place & story
Forts, a lake and a cottage
The field-name book for Corcomohide places Castletown in the centre of the parish and records 1,478 acres. Its description locates Cooreagh Fort and Gobnet’s Fort in the southern part of the townland. In the west it lists Knockroe Fort, Knockroe Cottage, Knockroe Lake and Addeen Fort. Separate entries confirm the Castletown locations of Cooreagh, Gobnet’s and Knockroe forts, and of the lake and cottage. These are features recorded by the nineteenth-century survey; the entries do not establish what survives today. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Civil parish
- Corcomohide
- Within
- Castletown
- Coordinates
- 52.41786, -8.81001
- Mapped area
- 5.99 km²
- Logainm ID
- 30573 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castletown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ordnance Survey field-name books1839–40: Corcomohide, printed pp471 and477 · Ordnance Survey of Ireland; place-names explained and fixed by John O’Donovan; historical transcription hosted by Limerick Local Studies
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.