placenamesKilreekill
Cill Rícill
Lewis’s parish account records quarrying and a burial ground recently enclosed in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Rícill · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilreekill · English · main form
Place & story
A stone that took a polish
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilreekill, written as Kilrickill, records a Dartfield quarry producing black stone capable of taking a high polish. Limestone was also obtained within the parish. He separately noted bog reduced by cutting. The account identifies local materials and extraction activity without naming the quarry operator or specifying where the polished stone was used. [2]
Planting around the burial ground
At Kilbought, Lewis recorded chapel remains said to have belonged to the Franciscan friary. The burial ground had recently been enclosed and planted with yew trees when he wrote. This dated notice distinguishes the surviving chapel remains from the newer enclosure and planting; it does not establish the age of any tree surviving there today. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilreekill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilrickill: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.