placenamesKilmoon
Cill Mhúine
Lewis linked the parish’s limestone grazing land with markets in Cork and Liverpool.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhúine · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilmoon · English · main form
Place & story
Grazing and outward trade
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Kilmoon connects its limestone country with cattle grazing. He reported large droves being sent to the Cork and Liverpool markets. The parish’s hilly surface was crossed by deep ravines associated with water descending periodically from Slieveilva. This account places the local pastoral economy within a trade reaching beyond County Clare. [2]
Mineral reports without mining
Lewis recorded reports of coal and iron at Rathbane, while expressly stating that neither had been worked. He also noted slate discovered on Slieveilva. These were observations and reported mineral indications in an early nineteenth-century account, rather than evidence of operating mines or a later assessment of workable reserves. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmoon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmoon, Burren, Clare — 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.