placenamesKilmaclasser
Cill Mhic Laisre
A University of Galway estate record connects the parish with Westport merchant William Livingstown.
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 Mhic Laisre · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilmaclasser · English · main form
Place & story
Landholding beyond Westport
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates record identifies two Kilmaclasser townlands among the holdings of William Livingstown, a Westport merchant with business interests across County Mayo in the nineteenth century. It names John Knox as proprietor of those townlands in 1838. The record does not name the two townlands or give the date when they passed into Livingstown’s hands. Its separate account of his 1854 purchase of Greenhills concerns Islandeady parish, so that purchase date cannot also be assigned to the Kilmaclasser holdings. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Coordinates
- 53.85917, -9.46669
- Mapped area
- 27.84 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1789 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmaclasser. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Livingstone: Landed Estates · University of Galway
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.