placenamesKillaraght
Cill Athracht
Estate research follows a rented house and land through a later sale of the family’s interest.
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 Athracht · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killaraght · English · main form
Place & story
A house held from the Lorton estate
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates record places Ardgallin in Killaraght parish. At Griffith’s Valuation, the Baker holding comprised a house valued at £7 and more than eighty acres leased from Viscount Lorton’s estate. The record dates the Baker family’s sale of their interest to Thomas Bell of Larkhill House, Quarryfield, to 1887. The property subsequently passed to the Cornwall family in the 1920s. The sale concerned the Bakers’ interest, rather than a stated sale of the wider Lorton estate. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killaraght. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ardgallin, property1498 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.