placenamesKilmoylan
Cill Mhaoláin
Lewis’s 1837 account records a farming landscape with few agricultural implements.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhaoláin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilmoylan · English · main form
Place & story
Cultivated ground and rough pasture
Samuel Lewis described cultivation in Kilmoylan parish as relying largely on spades in 1837, with few agricultural implements available. He distinguished fertile limestone ground in the north from hillier southern land. Only about a third of the parish was cultivated; rough mountain pasture and bog occupied the remainder. His description concerns the Limerick parish adjoining Shanagolden, rather than Kilmoylan in Galway. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmoylan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmoylan, Lower Connello, Limerick: 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.