Churchtown is a village, townland and civil parish in County Cork, Ireland. Churchtown, which had a population of 598 as of the 2016 census, is within the Cork North-West Dáil constituency. According to the Journal of the Ivernian Society, Churchtown is a translation of Baile an Teampuill, the former ecclesiastical name of the parish which had replaced the non …Churchtown is a village, townland and civil parish in County Cork, Ireland. Churchtown, which had a population of 598 as of the 2016 census, is within the Cork North-West Dáil constituency. According to the Journal of the Ivernian Society, Churchtown is a translation of Baile an Teampuill, the former ecclesiastical name of the parish which had replaced the non-ecclesiastical Brú Thuinne – the ‘royal house of the pasture lands’. The name of the parish, Brú Thuinne, has been the subject of much debate. Some scholars suggest that it is Brúgh, ‘a habitation’. Patrick Weston Joyce defines Brúgh as ‘a mansion’. Reverend Canon J.F. Lynch states: ‘Bruhenny is a diminutive form of Bruach, border or edge, and it is named Brochoyn and Bruchhane in the Pipe Roll of Cloyne.’ Others have identified the parish as ‘the marshy part of Orrery in County Cork’, leading to speculation that part of the name may have been derived from the genitive of the common word Tonn, meaning 'low-lying or pasture land'.
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