placenamesKiltartan
Cill Tartan
Kinvara’s spring landings supplied material used on farmland.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Tartan · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kiltartan · English · main form
Place & story
A busy tidal landing
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Kinvara account valued spring seaweed landings at twenty thousand pounds and reported that sixty to a hundred boats sometimes arrived on a single tide. The parish used seaweed as manure and grew wheat. These details show how coastal transport supplied farming, alongside the town’s grain markets and sheep fairs. Lewis also discussed a proposed steam service to Galway and a possible canal towards the Fergus; neither proposal is evidence that it was operating. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kiltartan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kinvarra: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.