placenamesMeelick
Míleac
Meelick Bridge links this Clare townland with Clonconane in County Limerick.
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
- Míleac · Irish · main form
- Meelick · English · main form
Place & story
Crossing Meelick Creek
Meelick Bridge crosses the Crompaun River, also called Meelick Creek, between Meelick and Clonconane. The National Monuments Service records a humpbacked road bridge dating from about 1800, with one arch and walls of limestone and sandstone. Red brick forms the arch surround. A bridge also appears here on seventeenth-century Down Survey mapping; the archaeological record cautiously suggests that the present crossing may occupy its site. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Civil parish
- Killeely
- Coordinates
- 52.68066, -8.69665
- Mapped area
- 3.04 km²
- Logainm ID
- 7442 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Meelick. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Meelick Bridge, CL062-049 · Caimin O’Brien, National Monuments Service
- 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 2021-11-01. How this page was prepared.