placenamesKilconly
Cill Chonla
Lewis recorded seaweed and sand as manure and preserved a local name for a cliff near Lick Castle.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chonla · Irish · main form
- Kilconly · English · main form
Place & story
Farming beside the estuary
Kilconly parish lay on the southern shore of the Shannon Estuary in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. He described most of its ground as arable, with smaller areas of coarse pasture and bog. Farmers commonly used seaweed and sand as manure. His description ties cultivation to materials available along the coast, without stating quantities or crop yields. [2]
A cliff with a local name
Near the ruins of Lick Castle, Lewis recorded a columnar cliff locally called the Devil’s Castle. He described sea birds using the inaccessible rock and eagles sometimes visiting its summit. The name belongs to his record of local usage; it does not identify another built castle or establish a supernatural story. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Coordinates
- 52.54968, -9.64525
- Mapped area
- 37.92 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1081 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilconly. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilconly, Iraghticonnor — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2022-01-13. How this page was prepared.