placenamesKillury
Cill Lúirí
Lewis recorded a coastal weather belief at Minegahane and a regular court meeting at Ballynoe.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Lúirí · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killury · English · main form
Place & story
A sound interpreted as a warning
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 entry for Killury describes a loud sea noise on the rocky coast at Minegahane, comparing it to cannon fire. He recorded a belief that it preceded a change of wind and usually foretold an approaching storm. This is evidence of a reported nineteenth-century interpretation of coastal sounds, rather than a verified method of predicting weather. [2]
A fortnightly court at Ballynoe
Lewis also recorded petty sessions at Ballynoe every alternate Monday. That fortnightly meeting belonged to the parish’s local administration, alongside the village services at Causeway. His entry does not identify the individual cases heard there. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Coordinates
- 52.44829, -9.74468
- Mapped area
- 45.7 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1099 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killury. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killury — 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.