placenamesKillure
Cill Iúir
Road investigations revealed repeated activity beside a stream, while nineteenth-century records describe Killure’s wider ecclesiastical ties.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Cill Iúir · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killure · English · main form
Place & story
Troughs beside the airport road
Testing for realignment of the R708 airport road revealed several burnt-stone sites at Killure. The monument records summarising A. Harte’s excavation describe one horseshoe-shaped mound above a substantial trough with rounded corners. Stakes and traces of woven timber survived around its sides. A smaller site immediately north pre-dated it, showing more than one phase of activity. [2]
One trough cuts two others
Another mound covered three rectangular troughs. The central trough cut the northern and southern examples, establishing their relative sequence without supplying calendar dates. A fourth site across the stream contained a shallow trough with timber fragments. The records distinguish the excavated road corridor from portions of mound that survived beyond it. [3] [4]
The parish in 1837
Samuel Lewis placed Killure on the Waterford–Dunmore road and recorded 121 inhabitants in 1837. He described its rectory as joined in 1787 with those of Kill Saint Lawrence, Rossduff, Corbally and Kilronan. His account reports no functioning parish church or glebe house at Killure, distinguishing its administrative role from a resident clerical establishment. [5]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killure. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killure burnt mound, WA017-138001, summarising excavation 07E0739, record uploaded 27 January 2011 · Michael Moore, National Monuments Service, citing A. Harte’s 2007 excavation report
- Killure burnt mound and three troughs, WA017-138003, excavation 07E0739 · Michael Moore, National Monuments Service, citing A. Harte
- Killure burnt mound, WA017-138004, excavation 07E0739 · Michael Moore, National Monuments Service, citing A. Harte
- Killure, Gualtier, Waterford: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Killure civil parish, Waterford · Townlands.ie / OpenStreetMap contributors
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.