placenamesKillelagh
Cill an Locha
Lewis connected the 1794 ecclesiastical division with later grants for parish buildings.
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 an Locha · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killelagh · English · main form
Place & story
Separation from Maghera
Killelagh had formed part of Maghera’s ecclesiastical union before becoming a distinct benefice in 1794, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of the Derry parish. The Board of First Fruits gave £500 towards its church in 1808 and £100 towards its glebe house in 1810. These dates concern separate building contributions after the benefice’s formation, rather than complete construction costs. [2]
The land at Gortinure
Lewis identified the glebe with Gortinure townland, recording 272 acres in all, of which seventy were under cultivation. The cultivated portion was therefore only part of the supporting land. His figures belong to that nineteenth-century ecclesiastical holding and do not establish present-day ownership or land use. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Derry
- Barony
- Loughinsholin
- Coordinates
- 54.87695, -6.72238 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 49.91 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2905 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killelagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killelagh, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2009-01-27. How this page was prepared.