What is the meaning of the prefix Kil- or Cill- in Irish place names?
Status of the Irish language of Kilteel was "Cill tSile" for centuries, meaning "The church of Saint Síle", but since 2000 it has been shown as "Cill Cheile", which does not carry the same meaning. Irish vehicle registration plates are bilingual: the county of registration is shown in Irish above the plate number as a kind of surtitle, and is encoded from English within the plate number. For example, a Dublin plate is subtitled "Baile Átha Cliath" and the plate number includes D. Conradh na Gaeilge has expressed concern over the proposed introduction of postcodes, which, similarly, may use abbreviations based on English language place
Cill Ghallagáin gathering of local place-names within a townland for instance. Cill Ghallagáin is well known for its strikingly detailed microtoponomy. Due to one man with a wonderful memory, over 800 minor place-names were recorded in this one townland in the mid 1970s. The names recorded for Cill Ghallagáin townland are mainly in Irish. They reflect the centrality of the bog, settlements, fields, caves, cliffs, coves, rocks and the history and views of the people more than a century ago. The names also reflect the transitional state of the Irish language locally in the later decades of the 19th and 20th centuries