the tillage-plot of the iron

Tá -n deiridh le fáil i bhformhór na bhfoirmeacha stairiúla agus cuireann siad Ceapach an Iarainn “the tillage-plot of the iron” in iúl. Tá Smithy SO díreach laisteas den bhaile fearainn seo i dtuaisceart bf An tOireadh (#28476). Bhí oibreacha iarainn ar an taobh eile den pharóiste, lasmuigh de Mhóinteach Mílic.

Déanann Tadhg Óg Ó Duinn tagairt don tionscnamh seo in ‘Settlement by Teig O Doyne in favour of his sons’ (1593), i gcló in LS Uí Dhuinn:

...the Castells, edifices, rents, reversions, moores, medowes, parkes, pastures, stones, quarries, Iron mynes, woods, underwoods, milles, rivers, waters, locks, bogges, mountaines, comodities, jurisdictions, liberties and customes, which I have enyoide or held or belonge the name of O Doine and Cheiftaine of the said Oregaine.

(Cf. Lewis, Top. Dict. s.n. Rosenallis Parish: ‘Iron ore was formerly raised, but it is not now.’)

Mionainmneacha ar an léarscáil:
Is anseo a bhí an áit darbh ainm 1607 ‘KnockchoneCloghlaine’ LS Uí Dhuinn 3, 1607/8 ‘Cnock korecloghan’ ibid. 39, 1608/9 ‘Knocke Choncloghane alias Cnockachorloghan … cnoc a corrclochain’ ibid. 75, 1609 ‘Knockachoucloghane or Cnockahorclochane’ CPR 123, 1622 ‘Knockarologhan’ CPR 552, 1622 ‘Knockarolaghan’ CPR 560 < Cnoc an Chorrchlocháin “the hill of the odd stepping-stones”, go ndearna cn Red Hill SO (#1419917) de.