placenamesKilgeever
Cill Ghaobhair
Lewis’s parish account records an earlier arrangement of worship on the mountain summit.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Ghaobhair · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilgeever · English · main form
Place & story
The summit described in 1837
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Kilgeever account describes Croagh Patrick as a celebrated pilgrimage destination. On the summit he recorded a Saint Patrick’s chapel built of loose stones, with several smaller stone piles serving as altars. These details document the summit’s arrangement at that time, rather than dating every surviving structure there. The account places the mountain pilgrimage within a wider parish whose worship also included chapels at Louisburgh and Goulagh. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilgeever. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilgever or Gilgavower: 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.