Cúirt Choirnéil

Cornelscourt, known in Irish as Cúirt Choirnéil (Court of the Colonel), derives its English name from a man named Cornell who owned a castle here in the medieval period, with the Irish name literally meaning "colonel's court." The townland lies within the civil parish of Kill in the barony of Rathdown, an area with deep ecclesiastical roots extending to the early medieval period. The earliest ...