placenamesKiltallagh
Cill Tulach
Lewis recorded children attending Lady Godfrey’s free school in neighbouring Kilcoleman.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Tulach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kiltallagh · English · main form
Place & story
A school beyond Kiltallagh
Children of Kiltallagh’s parishioners generally attended Lady Godfrey’s free school at Milltown in 1837, according to Samuel Lewis. He explicitly placed the school in the adjoining parish of Kilcoleman. Its service to Kiltallagh therefore extended across a parish boundary; the account does not place the building within Kiltallagh itself. [2]
Different uses of local stone
Lewis described Kiltallagh as extending from the River Maine towards Slieve Meesh. Its limestone was generally burnt for agricultural manure, while a quarry at Anna supplied brown building stone. These were different uses of the parish’s stone resources, supporting farming and construction respectively. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Coordinates
- 52.18480, -9.69087
- Mapped area
- 19.38 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1106 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kiltallagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kiltalla or Kiltallagh — 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.