placenamesKillimer
Cill Íomaí
Lewis recorded flagstone working beside a coastal farming parish.
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 Íomaí · Irish · main form
- Killimer · English · main form
Place & story
Stone and seaweed in 1837
Samuel Lewis recorded flagstones being quarried at Money Point in his 1837 description of Killimer, written Killeymur. He also noted seaweed used as manure in a parish principally under tillage. These observations place stone extraction alongside farming that drew on material from the shore. The entry gives neither the quarry’s output nor the destination of its stone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Coordinates
- 52.63722, -9.38386
- Mapped area
- 37.78 km²
- Logainm ID
- 443 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killimer. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killeymur or Killimer, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2023-04-06. How this page was prepared.