placenamesKillagholehane
Cill Deochain Liatháin
A historical field-name account records a landscape of residence, planting and farmland.
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 Deochain Liatháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killagholehane · English · main form
Place & story
Springfield in the field-name records
The nineteenth-century Killagholehane field-name account describes Springfield as Lord Muskerry’s property. It records a residence near the centre of the townland, a deer park and a fish pond, with about fifty acres of plantation amid land otherwise used for tillage and pasture. Its separate description of Springfield Castle calls the residence a three-storey house with service buildings, with a castle behind it. The account therefore distinguishes the house and rear castle rather than describing a single undivided building. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killagholehane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killagholehane field-name account No81, Springfield, printed pages10 and28 · Limerick Local Studies, historical field-name records
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.