Kiltoom, County Roscommon

Kiltoom, also Kiltomb (from Irish Cill Tuama), is a civil parish[1] as well as an electoral division[2] in County Roscommon, Ireland.

[5] The townlands and parishes of Kiltoom and Cam were used as examples in a study of rural communities in Roscommon in the century preceding the Great Famine of the 1840s.

[6] Historic sites are an ancient burial mound on which the first church in the village was built, near which is a holy well known as Tobar Pádraig or Patrick's Well.

In the second half of the 18th century the Roman Catholic parishes of Kiltoom and neighbouring Cam were united.

[7] The church of Kiltoom is dedicated to the Risen Christ, and the new central window (2014) in the sacristy depicts the resurrection of Jesus.