placenamesSaint John's
Paróiste Eoin
Testing at nearby St John’s Lane in Athy recorded imported fill above organic layers.
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
- Paróiste Eoin · Irish · main form
- Saint John's · English · main form
Place & story
Testing at nearby St John’s Lane
At nearby St John’s Lane in Athy, west of the Barrow, Martin E. Byrne’s 2007 report describes earlier testing south of St John’s House. Imported fill more than a metre deep overlay organic layers containing animal bone, shell and twigs. No artefacts were recovered, and a connection with food waste from the medieval religious complex remained speculative. The later four-trench investigation found no material of archaeological interest within its tested site. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban West
- Coordinates
- 52.98541, -6.98708
- Mapped area
- 3.83 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1224 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Saint John's. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 2007:741, Athy: St John’s Lane, licence 07E0940 · Martin E. Byrne, Byrne Mullins & Associates; Excavations.ie
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-04-27. How this page was prepared.