placenamesKiltoom
Cill Tuama
Kiltoom’s former Saint Paul’s church and an eighteenth-century estate house preserve older local histories, while Saint Brigid’s football club has carried the wider parish community onto a national stage.
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 Tuama · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kiltoom · English · main form
Place & story
Saint Paul’s church
Saint Paul’s former Church of Ireland church at Cornaseer stands within a walled burial ground beside the main road. Its unusual rounded chancel has a brick-lined crypt beneath it. Pointed windows, carefully worked stone surrounds and decorative scalloped roof slates give the nineteenth-century building a distinctive character. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage also records memorial plaques inside and yew trees along the entrance path. The church and surrounding graves preserve the history of its former congregation. [2]
Kiltoom House
Crofton Kelly built a house at Kiltoom in the middle of the eighteenth century after acquiring the property. The University of Galway’s Landed Estates database traces its later occupation to Thomas H. Strevens, who rented several townlands from Sarah Kelly at the time of Griffith’s Valuation and inherited them at her death. Kiltoom remained associated with the Strevans family until the 1970s. The record connects a surviving estate property with changing ownership across more than two centuries. [3]
Saint Brigid’s football
Saint Brigid’s represents the wider Kiltoom and Cam community. The club adopted that name in 1944, although the GAA traces football in the area to the late 1880s. Its first Roscommon senior championship came in 1953. Provincial success followed in the modern period, including three consecutive Connacht titles completed in 2012. On Saint Patrick’s Day 2013 the club won the All-Ireland senior club championship, defeating Ballymun Kickhams by a single point, 2–11 to 2–10. [4] [5]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Civil parish
- Kiltoom
- Coordinates
- 53.47304, -8.01506 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414409 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kiltoom. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Paul’s Church, Cornaseer: 31949003 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kiltoom House: property 1182 · Landed Estates, University of Galway
- Saint Brigid’s: club profile, 15 February 2013 · Gaelic Athletic Association
- Saint Brigid’s Kiltoom: club profile and 2013 All-Ireland title · ClubInfo
- Old Kiltoom Church, County Roscommon illustration: based on a Old Kiltoom Church by louise price. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.