What is recorded here

Killaspicktarvin still carries a bishop inside its own name, joining Cill and easpag to mark a church that answered to more than one village. That is rare enough to believe the enclosure belonged to a man who walked between parishes, carrying authority like a cloak. Maybe he judged disputes, blessed marriages or simply collected what the land owed. Either way the name preserved his reach long after his shoes wore through.

Some ecclesiastical enclosures have a bishop associated with them such as Killaspicktarvin which contains the toponymic elements 'Cill' (church) and 'easpag' (bishop) (Hurley 1982, 329). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 837. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013

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