placenamesKilgobban
Cill Gobáin
Lewis’s parish account places a flour mill at Bunnow and a slate quarry on Cahirconree.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Gobáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilgobban · English · main form
Place & story
Two kinds of local work
Samuel Lewis recorded a large flour mill at Bunnow in his 1837 account of Kilgobban, which he spelled Kilgobbin. He also noted a slate quarry on the side of Cahirconree, judging its slate to be of indifferent quality. These were distinct activities within the parish. His additional statement that iron was said to occur at Carraduff was qualified, and does not establish that an iron mine operated there. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Corkaguiny
- Coordinates
- 52.20692, -9.91435
- Mapped area
- 42.2 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1089 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilgobban. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilgobbin (Kerry): A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.