placenamesKilcloony
Cill Chluaine
Lewis recorded an improvement made by the Earl of Clancarty at a local mineral spring.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Chluaine · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilcloony · English · main form
Place & story
A spring enclosed by its patron
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Kilcloony parish records a mineral spring emerging from bog at Poolboy. He described it as chalybeate and noted that the Earl of Clancarty had enclosed it and built a room over it. His brief account establishes a structure associated with the spring by that date, but gives neither a construction year nor evidence for its later survival. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Clonmacnowen
- Coordinates
- 53.32402, -8.25793
- Mapped area
- 29.5 km²
- Logainm ID
- 942 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcloony. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcloony: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.