placenamesKilshenane
Cill tSeanáin
Lewis recorded visits to a holy well beside the parish burial ground in 1837.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill tSeanáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilshenane · English · main form
Place & story
Worship beside the ruins
Samuel Lewis described the remains of Kilshenane’s old church within its burial ground in 1837. Nearby stood a holy well visited for devotional purposes. His account records the practice without naming the well’s dedication, describing a ritual or claiming healing effects. [2]
Coal that was not worked
Lewis placed the parish south of Listowel on the road to Castleisland, with mountain pasture and bog predominating. He reported the presence of coal but explicitly stated that it had not been worked. That distinction preserves a contemporary observation about a mineral resource without turning it into a history of an operating mine. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Coordinates
- 52.37141, -9.48684
- Mapped area
- 54.51 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1105 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilshenane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilshinane or Killishane — 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.