placenamesKillinny
Cill Eithne
A named cavern appears in the parish’s nineteenth-century description.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Eithne · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killinny · English · main form
Place & story
A cavern near Kinvara
In his 1837 account of Killinny, written as Killeeney, Samuel Lewis describes an opening in rock called the Pigeon Hole, about a mile from Kinvara. It led to a natural cavern that he estimated at three to four hundred feet in extent. He placed this feature within his description of a coarse, rocky parish near the Gort–Kinvara road. The account preserves a historical name and approximate measurement, without establishing the cavern’s present condition or an exact modern location. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killinny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killeeney: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.