placenamesKilmurry
Cill Mhuire
The parish’s nineteenth-century institutions brought together trading, debt recovery and locally supported education.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhuire · Irish · main form
- Kilmurry · English · main form
Place & story
Gatherings for trade and justice
Samuel Lewis recorded three annual fairs at Kilmurry McMahon in 1837, on 24 May, 24 July and 24 September. He also noted an occasional seneschal’s court for Lord Egremont’s manor of Clonderlaw, where small debts could be recovered. These were part of the institutional life of this Shannon-side parish. [2]
Building and supporting schools
The Rev. J. Martin built the parochial schoolhouse on the small glebe, with help from subscriptions and the Lord-Lieutenant’s fund. A further public school had recently opened at Kilmurry McMahon. Lewis counted about 320 children across these two schools and four private schools elsewhere in the parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Coordinates
- 52.65904, -9.31489
- Mapped area
- 46.3 km²
- Logainm ID
- 57365 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmurry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmurry-Clonderlaw — 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.