placenamesKillora
Cill Órtha
Recorded stonework and a funded management plan document the care of the old church near Craughwell.
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 Órtha · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killora · English · main form
Place & story
Evidence of successive building
B. Doherty’s Galway Community Archaeology account describes Killora as a church built in several phases. Its earliest fabric appears to belong to the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. The church was apparently enlarged and substantially rebuilt in the fifteenth or sixteenth century, incorporating stone from an earlier building. Five recorded graveslabs in the surrounding cemetery date from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. [2]
Planning conservation
In 2021 Galway County Council secured Community Monuments Fund support for a conservation management plan covering the church and graveyard. The proposed work drew on architectural, ecological, archaeological and structural expertise. The account describes planning for conservation, rather than confirming that every proposed physical repair had been completed. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killora. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killora Church and Graveyard, Craughwell · B. Doherty, Galway Community Archaeology
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.