Killimor
The name of my townland is Killimor. It is called after a saint named Iomar. The ruins of his church are in the church yard yet. There re about fifty-four families in Killimor and near three-hundred people. The nearest town to Killimor is Portumna. The most of the houses in the townland are slated. There are many old people in Killimor, they are well able to tell stories in English but not in Irish. There are many rivers near the town as Rusheeny river and the river Shannon.
E. O’Brien

The Dalys originally came from Carnakelly. Traces of their castle are visible there today. AT this time they owned the Manor ofLaragh (a townland about two miles from the school) They had a castle here also but no trace of it is to be seen. One of them built a castle in Killimor in the neighbourhood of Laragh. The remains of this castle are still visible and it is from one of these Dalys of Killimor that the parish gets its name. Diarmuid O'Daly of Killimor was born about the year 1640 because

On January 6th 1885 there was a hurling match played at Feagh, Duniry, between Killimor and Ballinakill for a bet of five pounds a-side. The late Frank captain Lynch captain of the Killimor men staked five pounds Thomas Tutly Ballinakill who was captain of the Bainakill th team put down the other five pounds. Michael Larkin Lisheen was stakeholder. The match was refereed by the late Jack Derivan Fairy Cottage Tynagh. Killimor had an easy win therefore captain Lynch won the ten pounds. On each side there were twenty one men and the sideline was kept clear by horsemen.

The local fairs are held in Killimor, Tynagh, Loughrea and Portumna. Long ago fairs were held at Cornmarket which is about a half a mile from Killimor on the Loughrea road. The fairs are held in villages and greens nowadays. Twice a year there is a fair held in Killimor green and everybody that buys sheep or cattle has to pay a toll of twopence on every beast and a penny on every sheep.When the sheep and cattle are sold they are marked with raddle on the head and

There once lived a family called Burkes in Killimor. There was a father and mother and two daughters. They had a mill, and the mill was worked by the two daughers. One day a man named Brown was hunting with two grayhounds in Co Mayo. The hounds followed the hare all the way from Mayo to Killimor Daly Co Galway. This man Brown followed them on horseback. When they reached Killimor Daly the hare jumped into a big Oak tree that had bein split to the ground, and one of the hounds jumped in after him and was killed. That tree stands there yet.
As it was night this man Brown asked for lodgings in this millers house Burke's. He was dressed in a red jacket, and he was a fine looking man. When he was leaving in the morning he asked one of the miller's daughter's to marry him. And she said she would. He promised to be back that day week. He went home to Mayo. He returned in a weeks time on horseback. When he was coming near the mill he put on old ragged clothes like a tramp and he came to the millers door, and the girl he asked to marry him came out. When she saw him with the ragged clothes she said she would not marry him. He asked her to send out her younger sister, and she said yes turning away to find her. While she was away he took off the old ragged clothes, and he stood in full uniform. When she came out he asked her would she take him. She said yes. He took her away to Mayo, and married her. Some time later they returned to the mill. He built a big castle. Which stands there yet. He stood ) He had a son and daughter. Donnick Joseph

There was a man in Kylemore years ago. One night as he was going home from Killimor he met a priest who inquired if he were far from the church. The man showed him the way to the Church - and walked with him as far as the gate. Neither of them spoke. Next day the man told the Killimor priests this story. The priests said they had no priest visiting them and they did not know who this priest might be. The Tynagh priest told him however, that it might be a priest who at some time during his life neglected to say a Mass and who who now came back from Purgatory to say a Mass instead

1918. Great snow storm. The snow was higher than the walls. There was a play in Killimor at the time - but one of the actors was held up in his caravan between Eyrecourt and Killimor for five days on account of the snow.
One Sunday morning in the year 1904 a storm arose when the people were coming from Mass. A woman was blown from her own door and she fell against a man's gate. This storm caused great damage to sheds and houses.
There was very heavy falls of snow in the years 1890 and 1903. It was difficult for people to travel.

In the parish of Killimor, quite recently a woman had only one cow and yet she sold as much butter as two extensive farmers near her who had several cows. One of these men was talking to a neighbour one day and he was complaining that his wife could have

A Hurling MatchA hurling match was played forty years ago in Clarke's field and the teams that played were Meelick and Killimor.The two teams were equally matched and there was a champion on the Meelick side called Larkin from Lusmagh and another on the Killimor side called Kelly from Tynagh.It is said that the two champions met together and the impact was so great that the tunics in which both of them were dressed split on their backs.The match which was played for ten pounds ended in a scoreless draw but in the replay the Meelick team won. The Meelick team consisted of players from

My townland of Kylemore. It is situated in the parish of Killimor and barony of Longford. It got its name from a big wood that was in it some years ago, but there is no trace of the wood now. The wood was cut down and the land tilled, but the land is not very good. There are fifteen families and eighty-four

This old church stood in Killimor village and some old inhabitants there say that its remains - some cut stone and a portion of a wall - are in a garden. They can also point out a spot at the gable of a dwelling house where some cut stone and a cross - said to be that of a church - lie buried. However, an old man in the village says that he does not believe the church stones would ever be used in a swelling house because the old people had a belief that anything belonging to a church should be thrown away or burned.

There was a man named Finnerty living in the village of Lisduff in Killimor Daly. He was very poor and was not able to pay his rent. So he was evicted by by the Landlord, who also caused his house to be knocked. To the surprise of the Landlord there was a new house erected during the night and the man living in it in the morning. All the people which numbered about five hundred gathered together during the night to put up the other house for him. The remains of this house is still to be seen. The turf bank had also been taken from him bu this Landlord. During the same night the people cut as much turf as would do him for the year.

There is a hill near Killimor called Cnoc an Aifrinn, where Mass used to be celebrated in Penal times. The passage up to the top of the hill is still to be seen but the Mass Rock on which the Mass used to be celebrated has disappeared.Scouts used to be posted on other hills near to give warning of the approach of the enemies. A story is told that an officer in charge of a party of soldiers on a hill near this Mass Hill saw that priest and the congregation at the Holy

is a big tree growing and nobody ever cuts even a branch off that tree because a man cut a branch off it one day and that night he could not sleep because he heard crying outside the whole night. In the neighbourhood there is a stream called the two Baronies Drain because it separates the two Baronies Leitrim and Longford. The Longford chieftain whose name was Madden robbed and beat the Leitrim people and the Leitrim chieftain went to Dublin to seek aid from the English. When they came back they won the battle. The parish priest of Killimor Fr Madden is a descendent of the chieftains of Longford.

Lisdeligna is my townland. It is situated two miles from Killimor. There are about ten or twelve houses in it. Most of them are thatched. It has a population of about seventy people. There is a "Blessed Well" near called St. Brendan's Well
Some of the land is suitable for tillage.

Nail is my townland. It is situated to the north side of the village of Killimor. Portumna is the nearest town to it. It is situated on a sort of a plateau.
There are

In the townland of Kill is a graveyard not used now. The landlord of the place was a Captain Kelly. He afterwards built ( on the otherside of the road leading to Killimor) Longford Lodge which still stands - the Kellys sold it about 25 years ago.
The gate piers of Longford lodge is built of tombstones taken from Kill graveyard. The stones in the piers look like tombstones - being about 4 1/2 ins thick. If any names are on the tombstones the names are turned in as they cannot be seen on the outside.

My home district.I live in the townland of Brackloon. This townland is in the parish of Killimor-Daly . There are seventeen families in the townland , there are about 47 people in it.
The family name most common is noone. Most of the houses are thatched . There is only one storey in each of the thatched houses. There are also some slated houses in the townland. In olden times the houses were very numerous.

There are two public grave-yards in my parish, one is situated in the townland of Kiltulla, and the other is situated in the town-land of Killimor. But there are two other private churchyards in the parish also, one of them belongs to the Redemptorist Fathers of the Esker Monastery. The other is situated just beside the Kiltulla church. This is the burial place for all the secular priests of the parish.There are no old ruins in this graveyard, but there are ruins of an old church in the graveyard where the people are buried, and there are also tombs in the public graveyard