placenamesKilmacomb
Cill Mochuma
Lewis recorded freshwater, peat and tree remains near Woodstown.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mochuma · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilmacomb · English · main form
Place & story
A lake landscape in 1837
Samuel Lewis described Bel Lake near Woodstown as a freshwater lake covering about fifty statute acres in 1837. He also recorded peat and the remains of an old wood in the parish, identifying fir, oak and birch. The observation adds a wooded past to his account of the lake landscape. Lewis supplied neither a date for the trees nor an explanation of how the wood had disappeared, and his acreage describes the lake as he recorded it. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmacomb. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmacomb, 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.