placenamesKilfullert
Coill Fulachta
Records associate Kilfullert with a nineteenth-century farming competition and the wartime address of nurse Iris Gracey.
The name
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 Fulachta · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilfullert · English · main form
Place & story
A prize-winning ploughman
A report dated 2 February 1849 names Thomas Taylor of Kilfullert as first-prize winner in the farmers’ class at the Lurgan Union Farming Society’s fourth annual ploughing match. The event took place at Silverwood, near Lurgan, on Thomas Cuppage’s ground. The account distinguishes farmers’ and servants’ classes, and records prizes for agricultural implements and drain cutting as well as ploughing. [2]
Iris Gracey
Seán Graffin’s nurses dictionary records Diamond House, Kilfullert, as Iris Elizabeth Gracey’s residence in 1943. She trained in Ipswich and Leicester and received a commission in Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve in June that year. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Lower, Upper Half
- Civil parish
- Magheralin
- Within
- Kilfullert
- Coordinates
- 54.43089, -6.25851 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413245 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilfullert. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lurgan Union Farming Society,2February1849:newspaper transcription · The Armagh Guardian; Lurgan Ancestry transcription
- Biographical Dictionary of Nurses from Ireland1939–1945,p107 · Seán Graffin; Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-15. How this page was prepared.