placenamesKilglass
Cill Ghlais
Lewis recorded separate loans and grants for parish buildings.
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 Ghlais · Irish · main form
- Kilglass · English · main form
Place & story
Construction and later repairs
Kilglass’s Church of Ireland church was erected in 1826 with a £740 loan from the Board of First Fruits, according to Samuel Lewis. By 1837 it had also received £101 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for repairs. The glebe-house belonged to an earlier building campaign: in 1813 the Board provided a £400 loan and a gift of the same amount. Lewis recorded five acres attached to the glebe. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Ballintober North
- Coordinates
- 53.80076, -8.02857
- Mapped area
- 64.9 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2080 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilglass. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilglass, Roscommon: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.