placenamesTullynakill
Tulaigh na Cille
Lewis recorded regional distribution from fossil-rich limestone workings beside Strangford Lough.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Tulaigh na Cille · Irish · main form
- Tullynakill · English · main form
Place & story
Stone travelling beyond the parish
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account records extensive limestone quarrying at Tullynakill, on Strangford Lough’s western shore. He noted abundant fossils in the stone and its transport by both land and water to the surrounding district. The entry connects local extraction with regional movement, without identifying individual shipping destinations, vessel types or quantities. His description of the stone as resembling porphyry is a historical comparison, rather than a modern geological classification. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.50196, -5.67647 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 65703 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tullynakill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tullynakill: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.