placenamesShankill
An tSeanchill
Lewis describes quarry products travelling by the Barrow navigation.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An tSeanchill · Irish · main form · validated name
- Shankill · English · main form
Place & story
A trade name beyond the quarry
Flagstone from the quarries at Kellymount and Shankill was generally sold as Carlow flags, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. Although these workings lay in his account of the Kilkenny parish, their products travelled chiefly by the Barrow navigation to Dublin, Waterford and other destinations. He also recorded limestone quarrying and supplies of stone, coal and culm at Bornafea. The description distinguishes the place of extraction from the commercial name under which the flagstones reached a wider market. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Shankill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Shankill, Kilkenny: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.