placenamesKillare
Cill Áir
The estate record traces a house sale and later named occupants in Clonboy or Ballinacor.
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 Áir · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killare · English · main form
Place & story
A change of estate ownership
Ballinacor’s five-bay, two-storey house dated from around 1740, according to the University of Galway’s Landed Estates research. It stood in Clonboy or Ballinacor townland in Killare parish. Edward Nugent was resident in 1814; in 1852 James Nugent, Count Nugent, sold the estate to the Halls. Charles Hall held the house in fee when Griffith’s Valuation was published in 1854, with a building valuation of £23. The database records Major George C. Hall as occupant in 1906 and the house’s eventual demolition. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Rathconrath
- Coordinates
- 53.48546, -7.62395
- Mapped area
- 45.64 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2471 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killare. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballinacor: Landed Estates property5823 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.