People and Places of Galway

Standard Name:

Kylemore River

Irish Form of Name:

Abhainn na Coille Móire

Translation:

river of the great wood

Civil Parish:

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

Kylemore River
Abhainn na Coille Móire
Owinn chul a moree Inhabitants
Kylemore River (Eng.) Inhabitants

Comment:

See townland

Description:

This R. which is about 12 or 18 feet wide is very shallow in dry weather. In rainy weather, however, it rolls with great violence to a depth in some parts of 8 feet. It has a gravely bottom, and trout and salmon in great plenty.

Situation:

Takes its beginning from the surrounding mountains of Glan Corbet thro’ which it runs in a N.E. direction for about 1½ miles from thence it turns W. and falls into Kylemore Lough.

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:

Kylemore River is in Kylemore townland.

Original OS maps at the Ordnance Survey of Ireland website.
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Kylemore River

Information from the National Monuments Service.
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Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

Information about Kylemore River

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Information From Joyce's Place Names

Townland Information

Information From Maps