placenamesKilsallaghan
Cill Shalcháin
Lewis described a farming parish with twice-yearly fairs and abundant black marl.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Shalcháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilsallaghan · English · main form
Place & story
Fairs for three kinds of livestock
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account places Kilsallaghan on the old mail road from Dublin towards Drogheda. Fairs for horses, cattle and pigs were held on Ascension Day and 8 September. He also recorded a constabulary station on the New Barn grounds. These are specific trading dates in his historical description, rather than a schedule of fairs continuing today. [2]
Marl and increasing tillage
Lewis reported increasing tillage and described rich black marl as the chief, almost exclusive manure. The parish also supplied building stone. He divided its land between common, arable ground, meadow and pasture, showing an agricultural landscape in which cultivation and grazing coexisted. His account does not quantify the amount of marl extracted or identify its individual workings. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Nethercross
- Coordinates
- 53.46210, -6.32588
- Mapped area
- 11.03 km²
- Logainm ID
- 860 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilsallaghan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilsallaghan: 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.