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Townland

Quilty

An Coillteach

Quilty is a townland in Clare. Explore its recorded names and geographic context.

Watercolour and fine ink of a small stone barn with a corrugated roof and red timber door at Quilty on Loop Head.
A barn at the inland hamlet of Quilty on the Loop Head peninsula, as photographed in April 2010.
Recorded locationQuilty52.59493° N · 9.80927° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

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

  • An Coillteach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Quilty · English · main form

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Clare
Barony
Moyarta
Civil parish
Kilballyowen
Coordinates
52.59493, -9.80927
Mapped area
1.18 km²
Logainm ID
7130 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Quilty. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  3. Barn at Quilty hamlet on the Loop Head peninsula, County Clare illustration: based on a Barn at Quilty by Graham Horn. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2022-08-09. How this page was prepared.