Information about Killeighter

Killeighter in Galway and Kildare; Coill-iochtair, lower wood. See Iochdar (a noun) in vol. ii. p. 442.

Lower. The opposite term to uachdar is iochdar, which signifies lower; and this and the adjective form íochdarach, appear in anglicised names in such forms as eighter, eighteragh, etra, etc., which are illustrated in Carroweighter in Roscommon, lower quarter-land; in Broighter on the railway line between Magillian and Derry, broghiochdar, lower brugh or fort; and in Moyeightragh near Killarney, lower plain. In the parish of Desertoghill in Derry, there are two adjacent townlands called Moyletra Kill and Moyletra Toy. Moyletra signifies lower mael or hill; kill is "church"; toy is tuath, a layman, or belonging to the laity; and these two distinguishing terms indicate that one of the townlands belonged to some church, and the other to a lay proprietor. Very often when a townland was divided into two, the parts were distinguished by the terms oughter and eighter, upper and lower, or by the anglicised adjective forms otra and etra, or otre and etre; which is seen in Moy Etra and Moy Otra in the parish of Clontibret in Monaghan, lower Moy (plain) and upper Moy; as well as in many other names.

Ireland was first mapped in the 1840s. These original maps are available online.
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Killeighter

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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Killeighter

The Down Survey website will tell you who owned this townland in 1641 (pre Cromwell) and in 1671 (post Cromwell).

Down Survey Website
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You can use this link to find this townland on Google Maps.

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You can use this link to view a map of archaelogical features.
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

This is a list of townlands that share a border with this townland.

• Addragoole
• Ahgloragh
• Ballymoat
• Coolpark
• Grange

You can retrieve a list of people who lived in this townland from 1827 to 1911. This list is compiled from the following resources.

• The Tithe Applotment Books
• Griffith's Valuation
• 1901 Census
• 1911 Census

List of nineteenth century and early twentieth century inhabitants of this townland.

Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records you will need to know the 'church parish' rather than the 'civil parish'. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)

Killeighter is in the civil parish of Killererin.

This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.

• Killerein

This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.

• Killererin

In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.