placenamesKillahurler
Cill Achaidh Urláir
A community archaeology account records the churchyard’s surviving layout.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Cill Achaidh Urláir · Irish · main form
- Killahurler · English · main form
Place & story
Walls within an oval enclosure
Mooreshill’s ruined church stands within Killahurler civil parish, west of Arklow. Yvonne Whitty’s community archaeology account records a rectangular building inside an oval enclosure, with an earthen bank surviving along the enclosure’s southern side. The church’s north wall had a doorway near its western end. Burials dated to the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries occupy the southern part of the enclosure. Whitty identifies the ruin only tentatively as Killahurler’s parish church. The site is on private land. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killahurler. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mooreshill Church, updated 6 February 2023 · Yvonne Whitty / County Wicklow Heritage, Wicklow Community Archaeology Project
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.