placenamesLeixlip
Léim an Bhradáin
The churchyard survey and a recent restoration campaign preserve different kinds of evidence about Leixlip’s parish church.
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
- Léim an Bhradáin · Irish · main form
- Leixlip · English · main form
Place & story
Reading a burial ground’s incomplete record
John Colgan and Suzanne Pegley completed their fieldwork on Saint Mary’s gravestones in January 2000. Their survey explains that the churchyard served people of different denominations from a district spanning Kildare and Dublin. Burial registers begin in 1668, but forty-four years between then and 1777 have no entries. The researchers combined their own readings with an earlier 1969 transcription where stones had disappeared or become illegible, distinguishing those additions in their published record. Gravestones therefore supplement the registers without making either source complete. [2]
A rededication after repairs
Saint Mary’s was rededicated on 13 October 2024 during Harvest Thanksgiving. The diocese’s report describes a programme led by rector Scott Peoples and parishioners: roof restoration, window refurbishment, renewed wiring and lighting, interior decoration and a memorial garden. These were completed conservation projects honoured at that service. They document continued care of an older building whose medieval origin the report describes as a belief, rather than providing an exact foundation date. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Salt North
- Coordinates
- 53.36899, -6.50377
- Logainm ID
- 1205 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Leixlip. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Leixlip, Saint Mary’s Graveyard: gravestone survey, published 9 October 2007 · John Colgan and Suzanne Pegley; Kildare County Library Local Studies
- Saint Mary’s Church rededicated, 15 October 2024 · United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-08-10. How this page was prepared.