An Chaolchoill

An Chaolchoill (Kealkill) derives from Irish meaning the narrow wood, confirmed in John O'Donovan's Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks of 1841. The townland sits within Kilmocomoge civil parish in the Barony of Bantry, an area dominated historically by the O'Sullivan Beare clan. The region remained largely insulated from Norman feudal impositions, remaining under native Gaelic control. The O'Sull...