placenamesKilloscully
Cill Ó Scolaí
Lewis recorded a drainage project that opened access to agricultural manure beneath the wet ground.
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 Ó Scolaí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killoscully · English · main form
Place & story
Materials beneath the parish
Lord Bloomfield had a large drain constructed to reach a bed of marl in Killoscully, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. The marl was valued as manure. Stone from a quarry on the estate had supplied several of its houses, while roofing slate was worked on a smaller scale. Lewis separately mentioned a discovered vein of copper ore that had not yet been mined, distinguishing a known mineral occurrence from an operating extraction industry. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Coordinates
- 52.76045, -8.31714
- Mapped area
- 58.64 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2191 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killoscully. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killoscully: 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.