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From: "Laurence T. May Jr." <>
Subject: Re: [IRL-SLIGO] Ballykilcash near Dromore West Sligo
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:25:52 -0000
In-Reply-To: <122520061717.9901.459007940000B9A4000026AD22007601809C029D9A0D01040D0E9F@comcast.net>


A web search turns up this for the origin of the name. As so often
happens, the name has been corrupted from the original.

Onomasticon Goedelicum

b. mic gilla chais

Ballykilcash townland in North of parish Kilmashalgan, barony Tireragh,
Mayo, Fy. 260, 170, 479, in Uib Fiachrach, Lec. 169, Fir. 275.

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"chais" is a Celtic personal name.

Bally mic gilla chais would mean "place of the son of the servant of Chais."

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Subject: Re: [IRL-SLIGO] Ballykilcash near Dromore West Sligo

Holly,
Bally means town or perhaps settlement. Kill means church. So the
townland probably took its name from a church associated with St. Cas
(though I am not familiar with him). I spent a lot of time last summer and
the previous one tromping around that townland and nearby ones looking for
the ruins of an ancient castle where, in 1242 , the Berminghams and the
O'Connors fought it out. The castle supposedly was in the next townland of
Donnaghentraine, but we found it just across the Duneil river mouth in
Ballygilcash.
Anyway, the area is associated with St. Patrick and his disciple
Brone--so St. Cas also may have been. This does not help you much with your
surname search but I thought you might like a bit of local history.
Paul Burns
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From: "Holly Gillcash" <>
> Merry Christmas!
>
> I am in search of information about the relationship between Ballykilcash
> and the surname Kilcash.
>
> The Gillcash family of North America descends from an Augustus Kilcash, a
> loyalist (militia) soldier who settled in Prince Edward Island in the
1780s
> and died in 1796.
>
> I am trying to determine Augustus' lineage. The Flaxgrowers List includes

> two Kilcashes in Westmeath in the late 1700s, but surname information
> indicates the name comes from Sligo and is associated with St. Cas.
>
> Only recently I stumbled into a surname guide stating the family is
> associated with Ballykilcash (Ballygilcash) near Dromore West, although in

> my preliminary searches of online sources I have not found the time period

> when Kilcashes lived in the area -- before primary record keeping?
>
> If anyone can point the way I would be most grateful.
>
> May you all have a wonderful Holiday season,
>
> Holly Gillcash
>
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