placenamesKillyman
Cill na mBan
Lewis recorded a manorial jurisdiction alongside the district’s better-known industries and schools.
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 na mBan · Irish · main form
- Killyman · English · main form
Place & story
A five-pound limit
A manorial court met monthly in Killyman parish in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. It was held by the Lord-Primate’s seneschal and could recover debts up to £5. The entry records a local institution for pursuing relatively small claims, alongside the parish’s mills, bleaching grounds and farms. Lewis’s description concerns the historical parish extending across Tyrone and Armagh. It does not identify the court’s meeting building or establish when that jurisdiction began or ended. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Middle
- Coordinates
- 54.65288, -6.77590 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 63164 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killyman. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killyman: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-08-23. How this page was prepared.