placenamesTullig
Tulaigh
Cliff quarrying linked a small bay with building work along the coast.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Tulaigh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Tullig · English · main form
Place & story
Quarried blocks on a rising tide
Paddy Nolan’s account of Tullig describes brown stone blocks quarried from the cliffs towards the end of the nineteenth century. Workers loaded them onto a raft at the shore, waited for the tide to lift it, and towed the cargo to Ross Bay. Nolan identifies the stone’s destination as a retaining wall along the raised shore there. The account connects Tullig’s coastal landscape with both quarrying and transport by water. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Moyarta
- Civil parish
- Kilballyowen
- Civil parish
- Moyarta
- Coordinates
- 52.61459, -9.78997
- Mapped area
- 4.39 km²
- Logainm ID
- 7298 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tullig. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- An Strapa Mór,Tullig, authorPaddyNolan, updated31May2026 · Paddy Nolan, Kilkee Heritage: Past & Present
- 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 2021-12-10. How this page was prepared.