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Killygarn

Coill na gCarn

A 1928 land-purchase notice records Killygarn tenants and the proposed transfer of estate land.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of The River Bann at Killygarn, as photographed in 2011.
Illustration, The River Bann at Killygarn, as photographed in 2011
Recorded locationKillygarn54.82897° N · 6.45932° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie

The name

carncairn, pile of rockscoillwood

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Coill na gCarn · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Killygarn · English · main form

Place & story

The estate notice

Killygarn appears in the Land Purchase Commission’s provisional list for Edward, Baron O’Neill’s Largy estate, published on 16 November 1928. The notice identifies land which O’Neill claimed to own in Killygarn and ten other Antrim townlands. It proposed that these holdings would pass to the commission on a date still to be fixed. [2]

People & connections

Different scales of holding

The Killygarn entries include Patrick Casey, with fourteen acres and one rood at an annual rent of £8, and John Lynn, with thirty-five perches at nine shillings. The list also calculated proposed purchase annuities. These figures preserve a detailed record of individual tenancies, while the provisional notice alone does not establish that the proposed transfers were completed. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Population centre
County
Antrim
Civil parish
Portglenone
Coordinates
54.82897, -6.45932 (approximate)
Logainm ID
135798 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Killygarn. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Belfast Gazette,16November1928,p1272:Provisional List1011,Largy estate · Land Purchase Commission,Northern Ireland
  3. The River Bann at Killygarn, as photographed in 2011 illustration: based on a The Bann at Killygarn by Kenneth Allen. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.