placenamesKiltegan
Cill Tagáin
Lewis’s account of the Tipperary parish records a discovery made during a search for coal.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Tagáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kiltegan · English · main form
Place & story
Quarries and exploratory sinking
Samuel Lewis called this Tipperary parish Kiltigan in 1837, locating it northwest of Clonmel on the road to Caher. Limestone was quarried chiefly for burning. Attempts to investigate indications of coal also brought up specimens of wavelite, according to his account; this records a mineral discovery during exploratory sinking, without establishing a productive coal mine. Lewis also named Heywood as the residence of C. Ryall and Glenconnor as that of J. Bagwell, placing these houses within his description of the parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa East
- Coordinates
- 52.37143, -7.73632
- Mapped area
- 4.48 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2301 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kiltegan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kiltigan, 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.