placenamesKillannin
Cill Aithnín
Lewis recorded private houses serving communities at Rossmuck and Littermore.
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 Aithnín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killannin · English · main form
Place & story
Gathering beyond the chapel
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Killannin account describes a parish stretching from Galway Bay towards Lough Corrib and including Garomna and Littermore islands. Alongside its Catholic chapel, services took place in private houses at Rossmuck and Littermore. He also recorded four private schools educating about 150 children across the parish. His brief description places domestic buildings within the religious and educational provision of a widely dispersed coastal community. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killannin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killanin: 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.