placenames1901 census
3People recorded
1Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Walsh 3
Kilcornan
Cill Chornáin
Aerial recording revealed houses arranged beside a narrow street in the Monivea parish townland.
Recorded locationKilcornan53.31186° N · 8.71751° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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
- Cill Chornáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilcornan · English · main form
Place & story
Eight plots and a grass-covered street
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland records a deserted settlement at Kilcornan, identified from aerial reconnaissance in July 1970. Eight rectangular plots lie on either side of a narrow grass-covered street, each containing one or two houses, some with internal divisions. The first-edition Ordnance Survey map depicted three roofed buildings and part of the roadway. The survey suggests a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century date from this evidence and the regular layout, rather than assigning it securely to the medieval period. It also records the local name “the sixteen tenants”. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Kilconnell
- Civil parish
- Monivea
- Within
- Graigabbey
- Coordinates
- 53.31186, -8.71751
- Mapped area
- 1.68 km²
- Logainm ID
- 19836 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
6People recorded
2Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Kilkelly 3
- Walsh 2
- Taylor 1
1926 census
5People recorded
2Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Forde 3
- Walsh 2
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcornan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcornan settlement cluster GA084-086: Archaeological Inventory of County Galway, volumeII,1999 · Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling; Archaeological Survey of Ireland
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.