Information about Keeagh

Keeagh in Galway ; Caodhach, marshy ; a place of quaws. See Kea [reproduced below].

Caedh [quay, kay] signifies a quagmire or marsh - occasionally a wet natural trench; and though not in very common use, it occurs in each of the four provinces. In Scotland and Ulster and in some parts of Connaught, it is still retained with its proper meaning by the English-speaking people, in the word quaw, which is used for a quagmire. Its several anglicised forms retain fairly enough the original pronunciation. One of these is exhibited in the name of Kye in the parish of Clooncraff in Roscommon. There is a little hill near Silvermines in Tipperary, called Keywee, Caedh-bhuidhe, yellow marsh; and in the same county, west of Nenagh, is Bawnakea, the bawn or green field of the quaw. In the north of Donegal, near the village fo Millford, is a little lake called Lough Nakey; in Limerick we have Bunkey, the bun or end of the morass. In Dublin it forms part of the name of Coolquoy, west of Swords, the back (cul) of the quagmire. Keyanna about four miles east of Limerick city, is merely a plural form, and signifies quagmires.

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

• Cruckvallaugha (trigonometrical station)
• Keagh Village (village)
• Loughbeg (lake)
• Loughs Keeagh (lake)

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

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Keeagh

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

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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

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

• Gortyloughlin
• Killagoola
• Kylebroghlan
• Laughil
• Lealetter
• Poulnaclogha

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.)

Keeagh is in the civil parish of Moycullen.

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

• Moycullen
• Spiddal

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

• Moycullen

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