placenamesKilrush
Cill Rois
The Waterford parish contains a house whose nineteenth-century records name successive members of the Keily family.
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 Rois · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilrush · English · main form
Place & story
A house named on the later map
Lisfennel House lies in Kilrush parish near Dungarvan. The University of Galway’s Landed Estates Database records John Keily leasing it to Beverley Keily in 1851, when the property was valued at £12 10s. It notes buildings on the six-inch Ordnance Survey map, but the name Lisfennel House on the later twenty-five-inch map of the 1890s. In 1906 Mrs Susan Keily owned it; the house was valued at £14 10s and other buildings separately at £6. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Decies-without-Drum
- Coordinates
- 52.09049, -7.65075
- Mapped area
- 5.63 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2404 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilrush. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lisfennel House, property 4590 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.