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 Íomair· Irish · main form · validated name
Killimor· English · main form
Place & story
A bell waiting for its tower
Killimor Heritage Group dates Saint Joseph’s construction from 1835 to 1842 and its blessing to 4 December 1842, citing church records. A bell presented in 1895 initially stood on a timber frame. The tower received it in 1904 and the bell was blessed in 1905. Parish fundraising helped pay for the work, adding a later landmark to the older church.[2]
Folklore & tradition
A story attached to the Mass gong
The heritage group records a story that the church’s Mass gong came from a French monastery to one in Galway, then passed to Father John Callanan around 1912–13 when the Galway establishment closed. It notes that the gong has no identifying marks. This proposed journey remains an unverified object tradition; neither monastery nor maker is established.[2]
Larkin’s and P. C. Curley’s
Larkin’s, later P. C. Curley’s, combined a hotel, drapery, millinery, grocery and bar. The heritage group records commercial travellers and cattle dealers lodging there. Curley came from Kiltormer and married Bridget Larkin, connecting the later name with the earlier family. Overnight accommodation and several retail trades occupied the same village premises.[3]
Hearnesbrooke’s older crossing
Nearby Hearnesbrooke Bridge carried a minor road over the Kilcrow River. The architectural inventory dates the three-arched stone crossing to about 1760 and identifies it as part of a designed demesne landscape, with views towards Hearnesbrook House. Its central arch was blocked and a concrete buttress added around 1940. A later single-span concrete bridge bypassed it. The two crossings preserve different responses to the same river, with the older rubble masonry contrasting with the wider modern structure.[4]
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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Killimor — 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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Killimor, Galway — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 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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Killimor, Galway — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Killimor, Galway — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Killimor, Galway
Published census settlement populations
336people · 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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