placenamesKilmeage
Cill Maodhóg
Lewis recorded a planned settlement supervised by the Reverend A. J. Preston.
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 Maodhóg · Irish · main form
- Kilmeage · English · main form
Place & story
An intended refuge
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilmeage parish records a new village then being built near its centre under the supervision of the Reverend A. J. Preston. He described its intended purpose as “a refuge for Protestants.” This is a contemporary statement of the project’s aim, rather than evidence that its planned population or buildings had already been completed. Lewis did not give the settlement a separate name in that passage. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Offaly East
- Barony
- Connell
- Coordinates
- 53.25567, -6.85976
- Mapped area
- 43.99 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1195 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmeage. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmaogue — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-08-27. How this page was prepared.