placenamesKilleany
Cill Éinne
Lewis linked grazing farms in the Burren parish with distant destinations.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Éinne · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killeany · English · main form
Place & story
Grazing and cattle movements in 1837
Killeany’s farms supplied cattle sent to Cork and Liverpool in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Although he described most of the parish as rocky mountain pasture, he singled out richer grazing farms from which large droves were dispatched. His description connects this part of the Burren with cattle movements beyond County Clare. It does not identify particular farmers, the routes taken or the ports through which the animals travelled. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killeany. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilheny or Killeany, 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.