Kiltimon. coill tSiomóin This was originally an English name, 'Simon's Wood' , it was given an Irish form when the O'Byrnes occupied the district. It is likely that the place is named from Simon Henry who was abbot of St. Thomas's Abbey from 1200 to 1228. Archbishop Henry de Loundres granted him the land, or manor, of Killiskey, with the right to hold a court (RST p. 287); the site of the court was, possibly, at Courtfoyle. Kiltimon and Dunran Demesne are on the north side of Courtfoyle, and were probably originally the wood of the manor. The sixteenth-century documents mention some of the leading men of the sept of the O'Byrnes which occupied the lands here; they were descended from Tadhg Coille Siomoin, who was a contemporary of Tadhg mór hiubraighe, and like him belonged to the Gabhal Dunluing (see the genealogy in MacFirbis, also in L1. 388 and in O'Clery). There was another sept of the O'Byrnes called Gabhal Siomoin, but they had no connection with this district; their lands were more to the south, towards Co. Wexford and Co. Carlow. back to Sept families