placenamesKilbaha South
Cill Bheathach Theas
Kilbaha Bay’s harbour preserves evidence of successive engineering projects.
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 Bheathach Theas · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbaha South · English · main form
Place & story
Stonework on the shore
The national architectural inventory records Kilbaha’s pier under Kilbaha South. Built in rubble stone, it retains stone steps, parapet walls and cut-stone bollards. These practical features served the loading and securing of boats at the bay. [2]
Two harbour schemes
Brian Goggin’s waterways account distinguishes Alexander Nimmo’s failed 1822 harbour from the replacement pier by James Donnell. The earlier entrance was cut through the beach. Goggin reproduces Donnell’s 1830 report that the replacement had already saved men and property from shipwreck while unfinished. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Moyarta
- Civil parish
- Kilballyowen
- Within
- Kilbaha South
- Coordinates
- 52.56878, -9.85856 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412555 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbaha South. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbaha South, pier, record 20407102 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Nimmo’s non-existent harbour · Brian Goggin, Irish Waterways History
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-11-25. How this page was prepared.