Standard Name:
Knockweeldrish
Irish Form of Name:
Cnoc Mhaoil Dris
Translation:
bald or flat hill of the brambles
Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Knockweeldrish
Cnoc Mhaoil Dris
Knockweelldrish
Knockmeeldrish County Map
Knockweeldrish Rev. A. H. Martin, P.P.
Knockweeldrish Rev. T. E. Gill, Oranmore
Knockweeldrish Sir. V. Blake, Bart
Comment:
Knockweeldrish, part of Doohishka. Alteration by Mr. Burke B.S. - see letter and trace at the end of Boundary Reg. for the Ph.
Description:
Propr. Charles Blake, Esq., of Merlin Park. Agent Mr. Corumby, Hollymount, Co. Mayo. It is held by tenants at will at £1 per acre. Soil a gravely clay in general very rocky, produces very good crops of barley, oats, flax and potatoes. Houses stone. The inhabitants in middling circumstances. The quantity of uncultivated ground, which is a rocky pasture, is about 60 acres also about 11 acres of plantation. Nothing remarkable to be noticed. No antiquities.
Situation:
S. of the parish. Bounded on the North and W. by the parish of St. Nicholas, on E. by the parish of Oranmore, in the Co. and on South by Doohishka and Merlin Park.