BROWSE
townland
Coill an Mhuilinn
genitive: Choill an Mhuilinn
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Kilmullen
(English)

Glossary

coill, coillidh, coillte, coille
English wood
English mill

Hierarchy

county

barony

civil parish

Explanatory note

  • Gaeilge

    the wood of the mill

    Ní léir suíomh an mhuilinn inniu. Féach an leathaistriúchán 1666 ‘Killmallaghagh alias Killmullin, Clonanna alias Millsburry’ ASE 84. Tugtar cuid mhaith leathaistriúchán san fhoinse céanna, cuid díobh níos cruinne ná a chéile. Níor mhair an ceann áirithe seo i bhfad.

    Ainmneacha stairiúla:

    1. Tá achar níos mó i 1655 ‘Killmullin’ ar an Down Survey ná mar atá i mbaile fearainn an lae inniu. Bhí bf Clonanny san áireamh ann, agus, de réir dealraimh, an logainm stairiúil seo a leanas: 1540c ‘Kylmoragh 20 acres [… Kyllamolen 20 acres]’ Crown Survey, 1570 ‘Kylmorghe’ F 1654, 1575 ‘Kilmorishill, or Killmorchil, or Killmorcho’ JKAS 339, 1617 ‘Kilemoragh, a half plowland; occupier, Tibbott mac Edmond O’Dempsie; lying north of the land of Ballecharroll … Kilemorragh’, ‘Kilmorchill claimed in right of the earl of Kildare’ Inq. Lag. 6 Jac. I (Fitzgerald) < Coill Mhurcha “the wood of Murcha”. (Bhí an Tiobóid mac Éamainn seo a luaitear in 1617 ina chónaí in bf Cloneen laisteas sa bhliain 1600 de réir F 6439.) Dhealródh sé gur foirm mheititéisithe den logainm céanna atá in 1838 ‘Keallavogera Fort’ Descr. Rem.:AL, 1841 Kalladoogara Fort SO 6ʺ ( * /kɛləˈvugərə/ < * /kɛləˈvurəgə/ < /kəilʹˈvo̤rəxə/) in iarthar bf Cluain Eanaigh (#28500) agus gurb í foirm an mhapa in -d- atá lochtach. (‘No visible surface remains’ www.archaeology.ie.)
      In ionchoisne 1617 tagraíonn ‘Kilemoragh’ don achar céanna atá léirithe mar 1655 ‘Killmullin’ DS, nach mór, ach is cinnte gur dhá logainm ar leith iad. Sa deontas a chruthaigh mainéar nua an Tiarna Arlington is cosúil go raibh an dá logainm seo i gceist, i dteannta le bf Clonanny, i bpáirt áirithe den ghabháltas: 1666 ‘Killmallaghagh alias Killmullin, Clonana alias Millsburry’ ASE 84. Is cosúil gur cheart ‘Killm[ur]aghagh’ a léamh (cf. 1838 ‘Keallavogera’) agus neamaird a dhéanamh don ‘alias’.

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53.1421, -7.1247latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1518-19
Kylmolyn
Kildare Rent. Leathanach: 288
1518-19
Kylmollyn
Kildare Rent. Leathanach: 289
1540
Kyllamollen
Crown Surv. Leathanach: 161
1575
Killmulline
Ex. Inq. 192 Eliz. I (BÁC)
JKAS Imleabhar: IV, Leathanach: 339
1655
Killmullin
DS
1659
Kilmullen
Cen. Leathanach: 503
1660c
Killmullin
BSD (La) Leathanach: 116
1666
Killmallaghagh alias Killmullin
ASE Leathanach: 84
1685
Killmullin
Hib. Del.
1695
Killmallin, Killmaltagh al'
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 4 G III
1695
Killmaltagh al' Killmallin
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 4 G III
1805
Killeamullin
Cahill (La)
1814
Killamullen
Par. Stat. Imleabhar: I, Leathanach: 521
1814
Killemullen
Par. Stat. Imleabhar: I, Leathanach: 533
1814
Killmullen
Par. Stat. Imleabhar: I, Iontráil: 545
1814
Killamollan
Par. Stat. Imleabhar: I, Leathanach: 548
1837
Killamullen
Top. Dict. Imleabhar: II, Iontráil: 248
1838
Kilmullen
BS:AL Leathanach: La041,31
1838
Kilmullen
HCSV:AL Leathanach: La041,31
1838
Killymullen
Vestry Bk.:AL Leathanach: La041,31
1838
Kilmullin
DS:AL Leathanach: La041,31
1838
Killeamullin
Cahill Co. Map:AL Leathanach: La041,31
1838
Kilmullen
HCons PR:AL  Leathanach: La041,31
1838
Killmullin
DS:AL Leathanach: La041,31
1838
Coill a' mhuillinn, 'wood of the mill'
OD:AL Leathanach: La041,31
1838
Kilmullen
OD:AL Leathanach: La041,31

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