placenamesKilballyowen
Cill Bhaile Eoghain
Lewis records an earlier lighthouse apparatus on the parish’s Atlantic promontory.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bhaile Eoghain · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilballyowen · English · main form
Place & story
Fifteen lamps above the Shannon mouth
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Kilballyhone, or Kilballyowen, account places the lighthouse on Loop Head at the mouth of the Shannon. He describes a fixed light produced by fifteen lamps, with the lantern 269 feet above the sea at high water. That measurement is the light’s elevation over the sea, rather than the height of the tower alone. The account belongs to an earlier stage of lighthouse operation and does not describe the present lighting apparatus. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilballyowen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilballyhone or Kilballyowen: 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.