placenamesTully
An Tulaigh
Lewis recorded everyday trade alongside the parish’s older religious remains in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Tulaigh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Tully · English · main form
Place & story
Trade and settlement south of Kildare
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Tully parish recorded a fair on 21 December and a grist mill within the parish, without identifying its operator or precise site. Tully House was then the residence of William Dunne. Lewis also reported surviving remains of the former Knights Hospitaller religious house and its chapel, while describing extensive bogland adjoining the Curragh. The account places commercial, domestic and older religious features in the same parish, but does not establish that the mill belonged to Tully House or to the former Hospitaller property. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Offaly East
- Barony
- Kilcullen
- Coordinates
- 53.14125, -6.87493
- Logainm ID
- 1233 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tully. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tully (Kildare), A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-08-27. How this page was prepared.