placenamesKilfinaghta
Cill Fhionnachta
Lewis’s 1837 account distinguishes lakeside Mountcashel from Ballycullen’s surviving outworks.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Fhionnachta · Irish · main form
- Kilfinaghta · English · main form
Place & story
Mountcashel and Ballycullen
Samuel Lewis listed ruined castles at Cappa, Castle Crine, Mountcashel and Ballycullen in Kilfinaghta parish. Writing in 1837, he described Ballycullen’s remains as extensive, with traces of its outworks still visible. Mountcashel occupied rising ground near a lake, which he said took its name from the castle. These descriptions record the ruins as he knew them, rather than their present condition. [2]
An older church at Ballysheen
At Ballysheen, Lewis recorded an ancient ruined church and early tombs. He separately placed the parish union’s functioning church at Sixmilebridge, distinguishing the older burial site from the church serving the wider ecclesiastical union. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.75159, -8.75399
- Mapped area
- 32.66 km²
- Logainm ID
- 434 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilfinaghta. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilfinaghty: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-11-01. How this page was prepared.