placenamesKilgerrill
Cill Ghoirill
Lewis recorded a recently erected chapel on the parish’s road network.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Ghoirill · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilgerrill · English · main form
Place & story
A chapel on the roadside
Samuel Lewis dated Kilgerrill’s Catholic chapel to 1834 and described it as standing beside the road. His 1837 account placed the parish on the route from Ballinasloe to Ahascragh, within the Catholic district he called Fohana. He separately named Fairfield as John O’Brien’s residence and the Lodge as W. Usher’s, recording two houses alongside the recently built place of worship. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Clonmacnowen
- Barony
- Kilconnell
- Coordinates
- 53.34975, -8.32794
- Mapped area
- 27.72 km²
- Logainm ID
- 951 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilgerrill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilgerril or Kilgirdle, 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.