placenamesKilseily
Cill tSíle
Lewis proposed a waterway from Broadford towards the Shannon, rather than recording a completed canal.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill tSíle · Irish · main form
- Kilseily · English · main form
Place & story
A suggested route to Bunratty
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilseily suggested a canal from Broadford to Bunratty on the Shannon. He regarded the route as comparatively inexpensive because the ground was nearly level and much of the line could pass through a chain of lakes. His wording describes a possible improvement, not a waterway already built or operating. The suggestion belongs to the parish’s historical transport geography, distinct from the slate quarries and roads that actually served its settlements. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.77977, -8.64593
- Mapped area
- 45.32 km²
- Logainm ID
- 487 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilseily. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilseily: 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.