cronebane

Updated: July 15, 2025

"'I then took out, begad, a daicent lot of silver say a crown or so for my blood was up and the money was flush and gave it to her for which I got a cronagh-bawn* half-penny in exchange. * So-called from Cronebane, in the county of Wicklow, where there is a copper mine.

William Carleton - The Ned M'Keown Stories: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three