placenamesKilcommon
Cill Chomáin
Lewis connected the abandonment of local ironworking with the expense of obtaining fuel.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chomáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilcommon · English · main form
Place & story
Ore without an economical fuel supply
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilcommon in Erris records iron mines and a smelting furnace attributed to Sir Arthur Shean. He stated that the works had ceased because procuring fuel was too expensive. The same parish description notes building flagstone and limestone in its eastern districts. The account establishes a historical industrial venture and its reported difficulty, without identifying a particular mine, its output or the date of closure. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcommon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcommon, Erris: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.