placenamesKilfeighny
Cill Fhiachna
Lewis placed a country house above a landscape of cultivated land, rough pasture and bog.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Fhiachna · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilfeighny · English · main form
Place & story
Banemore in the parish landscape
Samuel Lewis recorded Banemore House as the residence of R. J. Palmer in 1837. It stood on the brow of a hill or mountain, with extensive planting around that elevated setting. His wider account of Kilfeighny parish describes land chiefly under tillage, alongside substantial rough upland pasture and some bog. Limestone was quarried for use as agricultural manure. The house and planting were therefore one part of a varied working landscape. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Coordinates
- 52.36944, -9.53854
- Mapped area
- 45.82 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1086 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilfeighny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilfeighney — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.