placenamesKilleely
Cill Liaile
Lewis placed the parish’s church at Meelick and its dispensary near Cratloe Cross.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Liaile · Irish · main form
- Killeely · English · main form
Place & story
A grant for work underway
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes Killeely as chiefly in Clare but extending into Limerick’s northern liberties. Its church at Meelick was undergoing substantial repairs supported by a £220 Ecclesiastical Commissioners grant. He credited the church’s original construction to the grandmother of the then Marquess of Conyngham and recorded communion plate presented by the Conyngham family. The grant concerns repairs, rather than the original building cost. [2]
Care beyond the church settlement
The Cratloe and Meelick public dispensary stood about a mile southeast of Cratloe Cross in Lewis’s account. Its name joined two localities served within the wider district. The entry provides a historical location for the institution, without establishing a surviving building, the number of patients treated or its operating schedule. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.69296, -8.70780
- Mapped area
- 21.43 km²
- Logainm ID
- 442 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killeely. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killely (Clare), 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.