placenamesKilladysert
Cill an Dísirt
Lewis’s parish account links estuary farming with materials taken from the ground.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill an Dísirt · Irish · main form
- Killadysert · English · main form
Place & story
Working the land and stone
Seaweed and sand were widely used as manure in Killadysert parish when Samuel Lewis described it in 1837. Much of the land was under tillage, alongside a substantial area of bog. He also recorded culm being worked in some places and stone obtained both for building and for paving slabs. These activities broaden the picture beyond the village quay and its trade. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Coordinates
- 52.67823, -9.10716 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 84.92 km²
- Logainm ID
- 437 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killadysert. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kildysart or Killadysert: 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.