An Chill/Kill

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Hierarchy

townland

An Chill

genitive: na Cille

(Irish)

Kill

(English)

Capitalise

Glossary

cill

English church

Hierarchy

county

Dún na nGall/Donegal

barony

Cill Mhic Réanáin/Kilmacrenan

civil parish

Cluain Dá Chorcach/Clondahorky

electoral division

Dún Fionnachaidh/Dunfanaghy

Centrepoint

55.1767, -7.95874latitude, longitude

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Historical references

1835	Kill	BS:AL Boundary Surveyor c. 1830 as AL / Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks. Bliain: 1830
1835	"The name given to this place in Mr. Stewarts (Horn Head) lease from the See of Raphoe is Clondahorky	Desc. Rem.:AL Descriptive Remarks; as Ainmleabhar Paróiste na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis/from the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebook Bliain: 1830-40
1835	Cill 'a church: this is the townland in which the original or mother church was situated' Kill rectius Clondahork'	OD:AL O'Donovan (leagan Gaeilge de logainm nó nóta agus é scríofa le dúch; John O’Donovan / Seán Ó Donnabháin a scríobh de ghnáth), ex AL. A note or an Irish form of a placename in the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, usually written by John O'Donovan. Bliain: 1830-40, Bliain: 1835, Bliain: 1838
1835	Coill 'the wood'/no!	Ogilby, A.:AL (DG) Ogilby, Alex, faisnéiseoir in AL, Cluain Dá Chorcach, Cill Mhic Réanáin, Co. Dhún na nGall/informant in Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks, Clondahorky, Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.

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