placenamesKilleentierna
Cillín Tiarna
Lewis recorded an approximate building date and an £800 contribution towards construction.
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
- Cillín Tiarna · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killeentierna · English · main form
Place & story
The square-towered church
Samuel Lewis described Killeentierna’s Church of Ireland church in 1837 as a small building with a square tower, erected around 1816. The Board of First Fruits had provided £800 towards it; Lewis did not identify that sum as the complete building cost. He distinguished the standing church from the remains of an older church in the burial ground, recording successive places of worship within the parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Coordinates
- 52.18097, -9.49199
- Mapped area
- 41.78 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1093 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killeentierna. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killentierna: 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.