Kiltoom, County Roscommon

Kiltoom Stores on the N61 road.
Cottage at Kiltoom.

Kiltoom, also Kiltomb (from Irish Cill Tuama), is a civil parish[1] as well as an electoral division[2] in County Roscommon, Ireland. There is also an eponymous townland in the parish.[3] Kiltoom is located northwest of Athlone on the southwestern shore of Lough Ree.

The main road in the parish area is the N61 between Athlone and Roscommon. Kiltoom formerly had a railway station on the Dublin to Westport line which opened in 1860 and closed in 1963.[4] The primary school, Ballybay Central National School, is a Catholic school.[5] The townlands and parishes of Kiltoom and Cam were used as examples in a study of rural communities in Roscommon in the century preceding the Great Famine of the 1840s.[6]

  1. ^ "Civil Parish of Kiltoom, Co. Roscommon". Townlands.ie. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Kiltoom Electoral Division, Co. Roscommon". Townlands.ie. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Kiltoom Townland, Co. Roscommon". Townlands.ie. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Irish Railways" (PDF). Railscot. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Ballybay Central National School". Ballybay Central National School. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  6. ^ Gacquin, William (1996). Roscommon Before the Famine: The Parishes of Kiltoom and Cam, 1749-1845. Irish Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-7165-2597-4.