Site of Hackmys Church — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Hackmys Church vanished from County Limerick centuries ago, leaving behind only a curving graveyard ditch and a name that kept changing across the centuries. The place appears as Acmys, Akynnys, Keilchuain, Hakmys and Kilcoyn in old disputes, suggesting neighbours argued over land while the church itself waited to be forgotten. What remains is a thin arc of earth on aerial photographs, quiet enough to overlook but sharp enough to mark the exact spot where a whole parish once gathered.

Westropp (1904-5, 423) recorded the following details about Hackmy's Church also known as Kilcommon or Kilcoyn; 'Hackmys or Kilcoyn. A parish. Phil, de Prendergast and Henry de Capella had suit about tenements in Acmys, 1297; Sybilla, widow of said Henry, claimed thirds of Akynnys in Ocarbry, 1309 (Plea R. 34 of xxv Ed. I, and Reliq. Repert., p. 32); Keilchuain de Achinis, 1410; Hakmys, alias Kylcommon, 1418; Kilcoyn, alias Haknis, 1615. It was from early times united to Kilpeacon. Site - Forgotten'. Only the partial remains of a curving ditch belonging to the graveyard (LI047-030002-) in which stood the site of Kilcoyn/Kilcommon Church, annotated 'Hackmy's Church (Site of)' on OS maps is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 June 2019

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