placenamesKillofin
Cill Lua Finn
Lewis’s 1837 account records a Shannon battery and inland mineral workings.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Lua Finn · Irish · main form
- Killofin · English · main form
Place & story
A battery at the peninsula’s end
Samuel Lewis placed a battery at Kilkeran Point, at the end of the peninsula forming the south-eastern side of Clonderlaw Bay. In 1837 he recorded six 24-pounder guns and two howitzers there, together with a bomb-proof barrack for an artillery detachment. This is an account of the battery’s historical armament, rather than a claim that its guns or accommodation survive today. Lewis did not give its construction date or the detachment’s strength. [2]
Culm obtained in two places
Within the wider parish, Lewis named Slievedooly and Clonkerry as places where culm was obtained. Elsewhere he reported indications of coal. His account thus distinguishes identified extraction sites from more general signs of a mineral deposit, without supplying annual output or employment figures. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Coordinates
- 52.62136, -9.26776 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 43.28 km²
- Logainm ID
- 445 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killofin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killofin — 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.