People and Places of Galway

Standard Name:

Kill

Irish Form of Name:

Cill

Translation:

a church

Civil Parish:

Iniscaltra
View all place names in this civil parish.

Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:

Kill
Cill
Kille
Kille Counsellor Reid
Kylle Inq. Temp. Jac. I
Kille John Burke, Esqr.
Kille Mr. Mulloy
Kille Revd. H. B. Hulett
Kille The inhabitants

Description:

A small ancient grave yard or otherwise a burying place without any enclosure about it. There are a few farm houses 5 chains N. E. of it.

Situation:

Near the centre of the townland of Kilrateers Lower about 2¼ miles N. W. of Mount Shannon.

Information from the Ordnance Survey Letters:

The Ordnance Survey Letters are letters between John O'Donovan and his supervisor, Thomas Larcom, regarding the work of compiling the Field Books. These letters provide further discussion on many of the places listed in the Field Books.

References to this place can be found in the following letter.

Volume 2 page 582

Translation according to P. W. Joyce:

Kill alone is the name of more than a score of places in various counties: in most cases it stands for cill, a church: but in some it is for coill, a wood.

What is a townland?:

A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169

Townland:

Kill is in Kilrateera Lower townland.

Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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This link is not a link to the townland that you are currently researching; however, if you follow this link, you will see a search box near the top of the page which you can use to search for your townland.

Having followed this link, you will see several expandable links - each link has a plus sign on its left - on the top left of the page. Expand 'Base Information and Mapping'. Now it is possible to select the maps that you wish to view by clicking on the checkbox that is on the left of each map; this list includes the original Ordnance Survey maps.

You can select more than one map and you can use a slider to make one map more transparent than another. This allows you to view what features were present or absent at different points in time.
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Kill

Information from the National Monuments Service.
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You can use this link to view a map of archaelogical features.
This link brings you to a website wherein you will have to search for your townland.

Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

Information about Kill

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Information From Joyce's Place Names

Townland Information

Information From Maps