placenamesKilconla
Cill Chonla
Lewis recorded a sudden landscape change and regular public business at Milburn.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chonla · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilconla · English · main form
Place & story
A change at Blindwell
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Kilconla parish in County Galway, written as Kilconly, reports that part of the land at Blindwell suddenly sank in 1822 and the resulting hollow filled with water. He placed Blindwell within the Kirwan estate. The brief account supplies no geological explanation or measurements for the collapse. It also describes fortress ruins within the demesne, including a keep enclosed by walls with corner turrets. [2]
Weekly sessions
Petty sessions met every Friday at the stationhouse in Milburn. Lewis also recorded large meal and flour mills in the parish. These details describe a district with regular administrative and industrial activity alongside its estates, rather than only the village now commonly called Kilconly. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilconla. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilconly, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), historical text reproduced by Galway County Heritage Office · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.