placenamesKilmurry
Cill Mhuire
Lewis recorded different industrial activities at Ballyclough and Ballysimon.
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 Mhuire · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cill Mochuaróg · Irish · main form · historical name
- Kilmurry · English · main form
Place & story
Different products at different mills
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilmurry records a paper mill and an oil mill at Ballyclough, with flour mills at Ballysimon. Limestone was quarried at Newcastle and elsewhere in the parish. These activities accompanied a landscape he described as chiefly meadow and pasture along the southern side of the Shannon, placing manufacturing and stone working within the rural area east of Limerick. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Coordinates
- 52.65570, -8.55717
- Mapped area
- 14.44 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1570 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmurry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmurry, 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.