People and Places of Galway

Standard Name:

Kilgerril Old Church

Irish Form of Name:

Teampull Chille Ghoirill

Translation:

Civil Parish:

Kilgerrill
View all place names in this civil parish.

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

Kilgerril Old Church
Teampull Chille Ghoirill
Kilgerril Old Church By. Sketch Map

Comment:

See name of the parish

Description:

This old church is at present in a state of ruin nothing remaining but part of the walls, outside is the burial ground of the parish, the length of the old Church is about 60 links long and 25 wide. It is situated on the side of a little hill from which there is a tolerable view of most of the parish.

Situation:

It is situated in the townland of Kilgerril within about 26 chains South f the mearing of Cloonigny and Kilgerril and 11½ chains N. East of Heath View House.

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 1 page 532 to page 533

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:

Kilgerril Old Church is in Kilgerrill 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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Kilgerril Old Church

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 Kilgerril Old Church

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Information From Joyce's Place Names

Townland Information

Information From Maps