placenamesKilnoe
An Chill Nua
Lewis recorded occasional debt proceedings and four annual fairs in the parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Chill Nua · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilnoe · English · main form
Place & story
Small debts and seasonal trade
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Kilnoe records a court for the manor of Doonass occasionally held at Coolreath. Its presiding official was the seneschal, and its stated purpose was the recovery of small debts. The same account lists fairs at Bodyke, written as Bodike, on 1 January, 2 April, 1 July and 5 October. These were distinct occasions for local business: Lewis gives four fair dates but no regular timetable for the court. He does not identify its individual cases or the premises where it met. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Tulla Upper
- Coordinates
- 52.87769, -8.62910
- Mapped area
- 42.51 km²
- Logainm ID
- 458 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilnoe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilnoe: 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.