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The following appear as names for Killarney. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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KILLARNEY | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
Samuel Lewis | A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (London: S. LEWIS & Co., 1837). | |
KILLARNY | Arthur Young | A Tour in Ireland, made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778 (London: T. Cadell, 1780). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Killarney. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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KILLARNEY | Irish Civil Parish | UK Government, Census of Ireland. 1851. General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland (Dublin: HM Stationery Office, 1861), p. 933. |
Irish Town | UK Government, Census of Ireland. 1851. General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland (Dublin: HM Stationery Office, 1861), p. 566. | |
Poor Law Union | UK Government, Census of Ireland. 1871. Alphabetical index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland (Dublin: HM Stationery Office, 1877), p. 760. |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Killarney, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Killarney, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Killarney, in and County Kerry | Place names, A Vision of Ireland through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/place/28886/names
Date accessed: 06th October 2024