placenamesKilmacshalgan
Cill Mhac Sealgáin
Lewis records separate support for the parish glebe house and its square-towered church.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhac Sealgáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilmacshalgan · English · main form
Place & story
A gift and a later loan
The Board of First Fruits gave £100 towards Kilmacshalgan’s glebe house in 1812, according to Samuel Lewis. A separate £1,300 loan in 1820 supported the erection of the parish church, which he described as having a square tower. The glebe comprised nine acres. Lewis’s account also noted a large Catholic chapel still unfinished in 1837, placing completed and continuing building projects beside one another in the parish record. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmacshalgan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmacshalgan: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.