placenamesKilcolgan
Cill Cholgáin
The tidal inlet supported small-boat navigation and supplied manure for local agriculture.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Cholgáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilcolgan · English · main form
Place & story
A working inlet
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilcolgan describes an inlet of Galway Bay reaching the parish, navigable by small boats. Large quantities of seaweed were gathered for use as manure. His description connects the shore with agricultural work inland, rather than presenting the inlet solely as a setting for Tyrone House. It does not specify the boats’ carrying capacity or identify a commercial seaweed-processing industry. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcolgan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcolgan: 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.