placenamesKildallan
Cill Dalláin
Lewis described the parish’s farming and distinguished two building projects supported by the Board of First Fruits.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Dalláin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kildallan · English · main form
Place & story
Cultivation by hand
Samuel Lewis described Kildallan’s land as chiefly cultivated by spade husbandry in 1837. His account also identified a large uncultivated tract called Ballyheady moor. These observations place hand cultivation beside land that remained outside productive use in his contemporary description. [2]
Loans and a smaller gift
The parish church was erected in 1814 with a £1,000 loan from the Board of First Fruits. In 1821 the same body gave £100 and lent £1,200 towards building the glebe-house. Lewis recorded these as separate projects, with different forms of assistance. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Tullyhunco
- Coordinates
- 54.05166, -7.57628
- Mapped area
- 48.52 km²
- Logainm ID
- 381 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kildallan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kildallon: Lewis’s 1837 parish account, reproduced by Cavan Townlands · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-07-15. How this page was prepared.