placenamesKilglass
Cill Ghlas
Lewis records different forms of assistance for a church and a glebe house.
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 Ghlas · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilglass · English · main form
Place & story
Two buildings, different funding
Samuel Lewis recorded that Kilglass’s church was built in 1814 with a £368 loan from the Board of First Fruits. He separately listed a £350 gift and a £450 loan towards the glebe house, without giving its construction year. Those sums distinguish money granted outright from money lent. They cannot be combined into a single church-building grant or used to date both buildings to 1814. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilglass. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilglass (Longford): 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.