placenamesKillossery
Cill Lasra
Lewis traced the movement of an old font and noted a schoolhouse beside the church ruins.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Lasra · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killossery · English · main form
Place & story
A font and a schoolhouse
Writing in 1837, Samuel Lewis described Killossery’s old church as a ruin. Its font had been taken to the church at Swords; after that church was demolished, it was moved again to the Catholic chapel in Killossery parish, where Lewis reported it preserved. He also recorded a schoolhouse erected in 1823 near the old church ruins. The account connects the ruined building with objects and institutions that continued in use elsewhere in the parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Nethercross
- Coordinates
- 53.47681, -6.28599
- Mapped area
- 11.04 km²
- Logainm ID
- 856 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killossery. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killossory or Killossery, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.