placenamesKillycolpy
Coill an Cholpa
A specialist study traces the name through early spellings and local pronunciation.
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
- Coill an Cholpa · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killycolpy · English · main form
Place & story
Woodland and grazing
Brian Ó Doibhlin’s placename study records Kilcolphie in 1609 and Kilcolpy in 1639 for Killycolpy townland in Arboe parish. He interprets the first element as woodland, rather than a church. The second is colpa, a word connected with cattle and grazing units. He retains two possible Irish forms, Coill an Cholpa and Coillidh Cholpa, both understood as the wood of the steer. The interpretation draws on historical forms and local pronunciation recorded in 2019. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Upper
- Civil parish
- Arboe
- Coordinates
- 54.58799, -6.59220 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414263 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killycolpy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mid Ulster place-names: townland names in selected parishes in South Derry and North Tyrone, PhD thesis, 2021, pages 63–64 · Brian Ó Doibhlin, Queen’s University Belfast
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-26. How this page was prepared.