placenamesKillesher
Cill Laisre
Lewis recorded an 1819 repair campaign supported by the Board of First Fruits.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Laisre · Irish · main form
- Killesher · English · main form
Place & story
Repairing an existing church
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Killesher account records a £600 Board of First Fruits loan for repairs to the parish church in 1819. The payment supported work on an existing building. He also described 1,300 acres of glebe land but no glebe-house. The entry distinguishes the parish’s church, its clergy land and the absence of a residence, alongside the neighbouring Florence Court estate. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killesher. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killesher: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2016-11-10. How this page was prepared.