placenamesKilkilvery
Cill Chilbhire
An estate record traces the house’s occupants and its uncertain disappearance from later mapping.
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 Chilbhire · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilkilvery · English · main form
Place & story
Occupants and a lease
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates database places Ross Lodge in Kilkilvery townland and civil parish. Anthony Blake occupied it during the second decade of the nineteenth century, followed by Walter John Blake in the 1830s. At Griffith’s Valuation, Walter Blake leased the property from Anthony Blake; the house’s assessed value was almost £9. That valuation was not its rent or purchase price. [2]
A house on the early map
The first-edition Ordnance Survey map named the property Ross Lodge. The university’s record cautiously suggests that the house had disappeared by the twenty-five-inch mapping of the 1890s. It does not give a demolition date. Its proposed identification with a house described by Wilson in 1786 is also uncertain. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilkilvery. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ross Lodge, house record 710 · Landed Estates, University of Galway
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.