placenamesLaraghbryan
Láithreach Briúin
The Church of Ireland church bearing the Laraghbryan name stands on Parson Street in Maynooth.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Láithreach Briúin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Laraghbryan · English · main form
Place & story
A church assembled across centuries
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records Saint Mary’s Church, Laraghbryan, as a nineteenth-century church incorporating medieval fabric. Its survey dates the main building to 1859 and identifies earlier church fabric from 1248. The six-stage western tower is described as originally part of the Geraldine castle, dating to about 1450. Pointed windows, stone tracery and carved surrounds belong to the building’s architectural character. The survey places the church beside the entrance to Saint Patrick’s College on Parson Street. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Salt North
- Coordinates
- 53.37256, -6.57919
- Mapped area
- 32.55 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1204 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Laraghbryan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Mary’s Church (Laraghbryan), NIAH11803100 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.