placenamesKilskeer
Cill Scíre
Lewis records a landscape being altered for agriculture in the 1830s.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Scíre · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilskeer · English · main form
Place & story
An improvement still under way
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes extensive land-drainage operations in progress near Bensfort, within Kilskeer parish. Most of the parish was then under tillage, although he also recorded about 800 acres of bog and waste land and an abundance of limestone. The drainage was therefore an active intervention in a predominantly cultivated landscape. Lewis gives neither its cost nor the area drained, and does not say when the work was completed. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.72625, -7.01114
- Mapped area
- 45.54 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1888 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilskeer. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilskyre or Kilskeer: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-11-09. How this page was prepared.