placenamesKillallon
Coill Fhallúin
An 1837 account places the parish house within Killallon and its union church at Clonmellon in neighbouring Killua.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Coill Fhallúin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killallon · English · main form
Place & story
A parish house built in 1812
Samuel Lewis recorded that Killallon’s glebe-house was built in 1812 with assistance from the Board of First Fruits: a £100 gift and a £750 loan. The associated glebe covered 36 acres, valued at £54 a year, while an annual rent of £11 was payable to the Earl of Fingall. The house stood in Killallon parish, but the church serving the ecclesiastical union was at Clonmellon, in Killua. Lewis dated the union of Killallon rectory with Killua vicarage to 1782. These were connected ecclesiastical arrangements across two parishes, rather than evidence that the church itself stood in Killallon. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killallon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killallon — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-04-30. How this page was prepared.