placenamesKilmurvy
Cill Mhuirbhigh
Kilmurvy on Inis Mor retains contrasting examples of island building: a twentieth-century school and an older vernacular house.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhuirbhigh · Irish · main form
- Kilmurvy · English · main form
Place & story
A school dated 1947
Scoil Naisiunta an Cheathrar Alainn bears a date of 1947. Its limestone walls and slate roof give it a familiar local character, while round windows beside the entrance doors and the long band of high windows reflect modern architectural ideas. The 2009 inventory also recorded a sheltered seating area in the playground. [2]
An older house in the settlement
An inventory entry records a thatched house dating to about 1800 within a settlement cluster. Its rubble limestone walls, stepped gables and opposing doorways preserve an older domestic form. By the survey of August 2009 it was derelict, with failing thatch and several altered or blocked openings. That dated condition records the building at the time of inspection. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmurvy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Scoil Naisiunta an Cheathrar Alainn, Kilmurvy, NIAH 30411011 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Vernacular house, Kilmurvy, NIAH 30411012 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- The harbour at Kilmurvey Beach near Kilmurvy, as photographed in 2019 illustration: based on a Harbour, Kilmurvey Beach by N Chadwick. 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 2024-10-15. How this page was prepared.