placenamesKillaloe
Cill Dalua
Sandstone walls and limestone doorways distinguish the town’s nineteenth-century courthouse.
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 Dalua · Irish · main form
- Killaloe · English · main form
Place & story
A civic building dated 1837
Killaloe Courthouse stands on Courthouse Road in Shantraud townland. Built in 1837, its two-storey front has projecting end sections and cut-sandstone walls, contrasting with the rougher stonework at the sides and rear. Limestone surrounds give the entrances triangular pediments, with overlights above the double doors. Rounded window heads and a horizontal stone band beneath the windows complete the formal frontage. A rubble-stone wall encloses the rear yard. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Civil parish
- Killaloe
- Coordinates
- 52.80721, -8.44491 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 7730 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killaloe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killaloe Courthouse, Courthouse Road, Shantraud: inventory20300811, surveyed26September1997 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-03-15. How this page was prepared.