Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Killala. You may be able to find further references to Killala in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Killala	seaport town and parish	Bartholomew
KILLALA	a sea-port, market and post-town, and parish, and the seat of a diocese	Lewis:Ireland

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Killala.

Place	Type of entry	Source
BARTRA, or BARTRACH	an island	Lewis:Ireland

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Killala within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Arthur Young	21st to 31st August 1776: Roscommon, Sligo and Mayo	4

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer