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Kilmyshall

village in County Wexford, Ireland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ25259040 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kilmyshall (Irish: Cill Maisil) is a village in County Wexford, Ireland, about 3 kilometres (2 mi) south of Bunclody. The population was 149 at the 2016 census. The 19th-century folklorist Patrick Kennedy was born in Kilmyshall. The village's Catholic church, Saint Mary Magdalene's, was completed in 1831.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kilmyshall” is village in County Wexford, Ireland. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kilmyshall, village and County, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 1831—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kilmyshall, village and County is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in County Wexford, Ireland” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25259040. Authority coordinates are 52.626, -6.651. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 1831.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kilmyshall”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kilmyshall primary sources, Kilmyshall archive and Kilmyshall research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Kilmyshall”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Kilmyshall” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.