placenamesKillathy
Cill Aichidh
Lewis described different farming ground and stone on the two sides of the river in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Aichidh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killathy · English · main form
Place & story
Tillage, pasture and local stone
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Killathy distinguished the two sides of the Blackwater. North of the river, he reported good land largely under tillage and deposits of limestone; south of it, the ground was chiefly mountain pasture, with brownstone. Gurteen, the residence of Luke Campion, stood on the southern bank. Lewis also recorded several raths or forts in the parish, without dating them or identifying individual sites. A private school taught about fifty children. These details describe the parish in his period; the account supplies neither the school’s precise location nor evidence that its building survives. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killathy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killathy, 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.