Camaigh

Kimmage's name derives from the Irish Camaigh or Camaigh uisce, meaning 'crooked water-meadow' or 'winding water', alluding to the meandering course of the River Poddle, a tributary of the Liffey flowing through the locality. The name appears in records as early as 1415 in the patent rolls, when it was spelled variously as Kamiuche, Kemige, Camysh, and Cammuce by Anglo-Norman settlers attemptin...