placenamesKilmallock
Cill Mocheallóg
An account from 1837 records how the old corporation elected its officers and dealt with small debts.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mocheallóg · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilmallock · English · main form
Place & story
The corporation at Kilmallock
The town at the centre of Kilmallock barony had a distinctive civic organisation. Samuel Lewis described its corporation as headed by a sovereign elected annually from the burgesses. A council of twelve chose this officer on the Monday after Michaelmas; the newly elected sovereign then appointed twelve burgesses to serve as the following year’s council. These were arrangements of the town corporation, rather than offices governing every later barony function. [2]
Small debts and an obsolete court
By 1837 the borough court, whose jurisdiction had extended to twenty pounds, had ceased operating. A smaller court before the sovereign or deputy still met on alternate Fridays to recover debts of no more than forty shillings. Lewis distinguished these surviving proceedings from the declining corporation itself. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmallock. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmallock — 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.