placenamesEsker
An Eiscir
Esker Hall served Killoe as an entertainment venue, meeting place and sporting headquarters after its conversion from a school.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Eiscir · Irish · main form · validated name
- Esker · English · main form
Place & story
A school becomes a social hall
The former school opened as Esker Hall on 11 June 1915. A local centenary project’s account recalls dances, meetings, cinema screenings and polling among its uses before it closed in the early 1980s. In January 2015 the organisers invited residents to help plan conservation work and share photographs and memories of the building. [2]
Football tactics on a blackboard
Killoe GAA’s own historical notes place its 1960 team at Devine’s field in Esker for training. Afterwards the players gathered in Esker Hall, where Seamus McGuire and Davy Sheeran explained tactics on a blackboard. The hall therefore supported the team’s preparations as well as the parish’s social gatherings. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Esker. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killoe: Esker Hall centenary commemoration project, 31 January 2015 · Esker Hall centenary project organisers, published in Longford Leader local notes
- County Final Trivia, 1 October 2012 · Killoe GAA
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.