placenamesKilskeery
Cill Scíre
Lewis described an expanding cultivated area alongside a small textile finishing establishment.
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 Scíre · Irish · main form
- Kilskeery · English · main form
Place & story
Work on land and cloth
Samuel Lewis reported in 1837 that more than a thousand acres of waste land in Kilskeery parish had already been brought into cultivation, chiefly through encouragement from the rector. He also described mountain glebe land undergoing continuing reclamation. Alongside this agricultural activity he recorded a small establishment for milling blankets. His account therefore documents both changes in land use and a specialised textile operation within the parish, without locating the blanket works at a particular village. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Omagh East
- Coordinates
- 54.46044, -7.51680 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 82.73 km²
- Logainm ID
- 63181 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilskeery. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilskerry: 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.