placenamesKilladoon
Cill an Duáin
The Earls of Leitrim occupied Killadoon before acquiring its freehold.
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 an Duáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killadoon · English · main form
Place & story
A change in the tenure of the estate
The National Library’s catalogue of the Leitrim Papers traces Killadoon estate to a lease granted by Thomas Connolly to Robert Clements in the mid-1760s. Clements later became the first Earl of Leitrim. His successors continued as leaseholders until buying the freehold in 1853. The catalogue puts the estate at approximately 470 acres. The purchase therefore changed the family’s tenure of an estate they already held, rather than marking their first arrival at Killadoon. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Salt North
- Coordinates
- 53.32752, -6.57906
- Mapped area
- 7.15 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1190 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killadoon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Leitrim Papers, Collection List49, introduction, printed page9 · Brigid Clesham, archivist; National Library of Ireland, 1999
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.