Information about Killamanagh

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 357

Killamanagh in Galway; Cill-a-manach, church of the monks. The a after kill is the inserted vowel sound: p. 7, VII [reproduced below]. See Kilnamanagh, vol. i.p. 492 [reproduced below].

VII. There are certain consonants which, when they come together, cannot well be pronounced by the Irish people (especially those accustomed to Irish), without the insertion of a short vowel sound between them - which acts as it were like a buffer - which acts as it were like a buffer - so as to add a syllable to the word; for example, errub for herb, Char-less for Charles, ferrum for firm (see this set forth in my "English as we speak it in Ireland", p. 96). Place-name example: Cloncallick, in Fermanagh and Monaghan, Cloon-cailc, meadow of lime or chalk. Calc would be pronounced calc (one syll.) by an Englishman, but callick by an Irishman, as it is here. I have already conjectured (p. 314) that about a fifth of the kils and kills that begin names are woods; the following are a few examples: - Kilnamanagh, a barony in Tipperary, the ancient patrimony of the O'Dwyers, is called by the Four Masters, Coill-na-manach, the wood of the monks.

Some other placenames in or near this townland are...

• Killamanagh (village)
• Killimannagh (village)
• Loughanlea (lake)

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

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Killamanagh

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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

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

• Abbeytown
• Ballinvoher
• Beagh Beg
• Bellanagarraun
• Bunnasillagh
• Raheen

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.)

Killamanagh is in the civil parish of Donaghpatrick.

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

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

• Donagh Patrick

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