placenamesKilpoole
Cill Phóil
Lewis’s 1837 parish account includes a description of a shallow offshore bank.
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 Phóil · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilpoole · English · main form
Place & story
A nineteenth-century coastal observation
Samuel Lewis’s account of Kilpoole in 1837 described an offshore sandbank called the Horse Shoe. He reported it extending south-west for about a mile, with its shallowest water at the northern end, where he gave a depth of about five feet. These are historical measurements from his description, rather than information for present navigation. Lewis placed most of Wicklow town within the parish and recorded four private schools teaching about one hundred and twenty children across it, without locating the individual schools. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilpoole. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilpoole, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.