placenamesKiltomy
Cill Tóime
Lewis connected the ruined parish church with family burials before the mausoleum near Lixnaw.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Tóime · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kiltomy · English · main form
Place & story
The churchyard before the mausoleum
Samuel Lewis recorded the old church at Kiltomy in ruins in 1837. He identified its cemetery as a burial place of the Fitzmaurices before the erection of their mausoleum near Lixnaw. The account links the parish’s older church site with the family’s wider history, without supplying dates for individual burials there. [2]
Gravel used on the fields
Lewis described roughly half the parish as arable land, with marshy ground and bog making up the remainder. Limestone gravel found near Kiltomy was used as manure. This was a practical agricultural use of local material in the landscape beside the River Brick. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Coordinates
- 52.39091, -9.64470
- Mapped area
- 24.07 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1107 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kiltomy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kiltoomy or Kiltorney — 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.