placenamesKillincooly
Cillín Cúile
An 1837 account describes coastal farming alongside a fishery employing men from two neighbouring parishes.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cillín Cúile · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killincooly · English · main form
Place & story
Butter, cheese and herring
Samuel Lewis’s account of Killincooly in 1837 describes extensive tillage, with the remaining land used for grazing. He reported substantial butter and cheese production, without giving quantities. At Tinabearny, approximately seven boats and 50 men worked in a herring fishery. Those men came from both Killincooly and adjoining Kilmuckridge, so the figures describe their shared fishery rather than a workforce drawn entirely from this parish. The account places maritime work alongside the farming economy of a coastal parish, without identifying individual boats, crews or markets for its dairy produce. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Coordinates
- 52.51702, -6.31014
- Mapped area
- 20.19 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2571 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killincooly. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killancooly — 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.