Illaunnaginga

Antoinette Lydon

Illaunnaginga is in the civil parish of Kilcummin. The civil Parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish of Kilcummin, Galway West. In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same as is the case in the Kilcummin Oughterard area.

Illaunnaginga is in the Electoral Division of Camus, in Civil Parish of Kilcummin, in the Barony of Moycullen, in the County of Galway

Information from O’Donovan’s Field Name Books

Irish Form of Name: Oileán a Ginge

Translation: island of the wedge

Parish: Kilcummin
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Other Forms of the Name with the authority source (if provided) in italics.

Illaunnaginga
Oileán a Ginge
Oileán na Ginge
Illaunaginga Local
Wedge Island

Description: A rock near the shore. Indefinite.

Situation: Illaunnaginga is in the townland of Derravonniff

Townlands

A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland. They range in size from a few acres to thousands of acres. Many are Gaelic in origin, but some came into existence after the Norman invasion of 1169

Illaunnaginga is a townland.

Census 1841-1911

No people lived on Illaunnaginga.

Church records of births, deaths and marriages:

Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records you will need to know the ‘church parish’ rather than the ‘civil parish’. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)

Illaunnaginga is in the civil parish of Kilcummin.