placenamesKilquain
Cill Chuáin
The Stowlin property links Quainsborough on maps with Quansbury in estate papers.
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 Chuáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilquain · English · main form
Place & story
A house in Stowlin
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates database identifies a house in Stowlin townland, Kilquain civil parish, under the names Quainsborough, Quansbury Lodge and Stowlin. It records William B. Burke there in Slater’s 1846 directory and a reference to the property in a November 1853 sale notice for part of the St. George estate. In 1856 John P Watson occupied the Stowlin house, valued at £13. [2]
Owners, valuations and spelling
By 1906 the house belonged to Kate Watson and carried a valuation of £33. The database reports buildings surviving at the site, while allowing that they may have been modernised. It also distinguishes the spelling Quansbury, used in many documents, from Quainsborough on Ordnance Survey maps. These names refer to the property within Kilquain parish rather than three separately identified houses. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilquain. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Quainsborough/Quansbury Lodge/Stowlin, property 910 · Landed Estates, University of Galway
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.