placenamesKilrush
Cill Rois
Lewis recorded both a financial vote and a request for royal recognition.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Rois · Irish · main form
- Kilrush · English · main form
Place & story
A vote and a petition
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes the Earl of Ormonde’s victory over Lord Mountgarrett and other leaders in 1642, after an encounter on the high ground of Kilrush and Bullhill. He records that the English House of Commons voted £500 towards the purchase of a jewel for Ormonde and petitioned the king to make him a Knight of the Garter. These are reports of a vote and a petition: the passage does not establish when a jewel was purchased or when the requested honour was conferred. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Coordinates
- 53.08052, -6.87447
- Mapped area
- 16.67 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1199 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilrush. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilrush, Kildare: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-07-25. How this page was prepared.