placenamesKillag
Cill Laig
Lewis described farming beside Ballyteigue’s lough and placed Inch island within the parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Laig · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killag · English · main form
Place & story
A lough-side parish
In 1837 Samuel Lewis described Killag as a peninsula beside the lough formed by Ballyteigue’s burrow. Almost all its recorded land was under tillage, with seaweed collected from the lough used as manure. He also placed the small island of Inch within Killag parish. The island reference belongs to this coastal setting, separate from the other Wexford parishes named Inch. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killag. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killag, 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.