Irish Form of Name:
Cloch Róca
Translation:
Rock’s stone or stone building
Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Cloghroak
Cloch Róca
Cloch Róca
Croch roca
Cloghroak By. Surveyors Sketch Map
Croaghroak Engraved County Map
Cloghrocka Inq. Temp. Jac. I
Cloghrokee Printed Townland List
Cloghroke Rev. George Dwyer, Rector
Clocroke Rev. P. B. Quinn, P.P.
Clocroak Tithe Composition Book
Comment:
Many old castles are called Clogh
Description:
Proprietor John Lambert, Esq., Aggard, Croghwell. Agent Mr. Lambert, Kilquane, Croghwell. Let to 7 occupying tenants on a lease of one life or 41 years at 27s. 6d. per acre yearly rent. County Cess 2s. 11d. per acre. Tithe withheld. Farms 6 to 46 acres. size of farms. Soil rocky, gravely and sandy. Usual crops wheat, barley, oats, potatoes. Bog none. Prevailing names Tarpy. Ruins of Cloghroak Old Castle enclosed by a strong wall. Traces of a walled in garden and ruins of a turret in the West Angle of the old castle wall. A noble Irish family of the name (Burke) inhabited this castle in former years. 5 forts and a cave in one of them in this townland. Authority James Tarpey, Cloghroak.
Situation:
In the North of the parish of Ardrahan, Barony of Dunkellin and County Galway, South of a road leading from Castle Taylor.
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