placenamesKilthomas
Cill Tómais
Lewis recorded a church-building project in the Catholic parish also known as Peterswell.
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 Tómais · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilthomas · English · main form
Place & story
Land, a donation and a schoolroom
A new Catholic chapel was built in Kilthomas in 1836 at a reported cost of £700. Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account identifies Blake Foster as the donor of its site and records a £30 contribution from R. Gregory towards construction. The former chapel had meanwhile become a schoolhouse. This gives the parish a short, clearly dated sequence of building and reuse: a new place of worship was followed by an educational role for the older premises. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilthomas. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilthomas: 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.