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
Cill Mhuire· Irish · main form · validated name
Cill Mhuire na nGall· Irish · main form · historical name
Kilmurry· English · main form
Place & story
Saint Mary’s through successive repairs
St Mary’s Catholic Church was built by Fr Clune in 1833. The Clare stained-glass survey records later work in several phases: decoration in 1918, new floors and seating in 1924, and re-slating in 1980. The church is one of the two serving the parish of Sixmilebridge and Kilmurry. Its history is consequently one of continued repair and adaptation as well as the original construction campaign.[2]
Watson windows and a family’s remembrance
Two sanctuary windows, The Nativity and The Home at Nazareth, were made by Watsons of Youghal in 1924–25. Joseph P. Lynch of Walton Lodge ordered them in November 1924. Their inscriptions commemorate earlier generations: Nicholas Lynch and his wife, and Peter Lynch Fitzjames and Catherine. The survey connects the surviving glass with the firm’s archival order records, now held by the National Gallery of Ireland. These windows give named family associations to the church’s early twentieth-century refurbishment.[2]
A small village in the 1943 survey
Ralph Lucas’s Irish Tourist Association survey, dated June 1943, described Kilmurry as a separate village about three miles from Sixmilebridge. He recorded its Catholic church, mixed national school, a forge, public house and a post office handling letters. A hurling field served local practice, complementing the field at Sixmilebridge. This modest list preserves the village’s everyday functions at a particular moment: education, communication, metalworking and recreation beside the church.[3]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Kilmurry — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Kilmurry, Clare — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Kilmurry, Clare
Published census settlement populations
280people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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