placenamesShillelagh
Síol Éalaigh
A community project restored attention to a graveyard and reused stones from vanished buildings.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Síol Éalaigh · Irish · main form
- Shillelagh · English · main form
Place & story
A wall of remembrance
The Shillelagh Union Road PURE Mile group’s account describes local resident Annette Nolan drawing attention to the overgrown fever-hospital site and graveyard. Council workers cleared vegetation and planted trees. The group sought volunteers to restore the graveyard wall and build a remembrance wall from stones of the former buildings. A commemorative stone marked the wall’s unveiling on 17 August 2013, at the beginning of Heritage Week. The project gave a visible focus to remembrance at the former workhouse complex. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Civil parish
- Carnew
- Coordinates
- 52.75405, -6.53354 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 55916 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Shillelagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Shillelagh (Union Road): Heritage Week2013 pamphlet and community project · Shillelagh Union Road PURE Mile group; County Wicklow Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-05-08. How this page was prepared.