placenamesKilloscobe
Cill Ó Scóba
University estate records trace a purchase, an inheritance and the later loss of the main house.
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 Ó Scóba · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killoscobe · English · main form
Place & story
Two men named James Blake
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates survey records James Blake of Waterdale buying the French estate of Moneen or Vermont in Killoscobe parish. When he died in 1821, his estates passed to his nephew, also James Blake. The repeated name therefore refers to two people in this account. The university’s Vermount property record dates the house’s burning to 1923 and notes its depiction as ruined on the 1932 Ordnance Survey six-inch map. [2] [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killoscobe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Blake, Waterdale and Vermount, estate984 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
- Vermount, property812 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.