placenamesKilmore
An Chill Mhór
Kilmore’s old maps and surviving buildings record a working landscape on the road between Limerick and Broadford.
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
- An Chill Mhór · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilmore · English · main form
Place & story
Five kilns on an old map
Goretti Considine’s local landscape study identifies five lime kilns grouped beside the R465, below Kilmore’s Catholic chapel, on the 1842 Ordnance Survey map. They are absent from the 1938 revision, and her field account found no clear surviving evidence. The map comparison preserves a trace of local industry, although the study could not establish how the lime had been used. [2]
The post office building
Kilmore’s post office occupied the roadside room of a stone house on the Limerick–Broadford mail-car route. Considine records its opening in 1884 and closure in May 1989, with John Flannery an early postmaster and John Millane the last. Her study also identifies the building on the 1938 map and records its later restoration as a private house. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Civil parish
- Killokennedy
- Within
- Kilmore
- Coordinates
- 52.75265, -8.59248 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412559 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- The Townlands of Kilmore and Aherinabeg – places of interest, updated 11 January 2024 · Goretti Considine, Reading Your Local Landscape project, County Clare Heritage Office
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.