placenamesSaint Michael's
Paróiste Mhichíl
Lewis distinguished the principal building donation from the land and additional support provided by the Duke of Leinster.
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 Mhichíl · Irish · main form
- Saint Michael's · English · main form
Place & story
The chapel and its donors
Samuel Lewis placed Athy’s Catholic chapel in Saint Michael’s parish and dated its construction to 1796. Maurice Keating of Narraghmore provided the principal donation. The Duke of Leinster gave an acre of land and also contributed towards the building. Lewis separately recorded two large schoolrooms beside the chapel: one for four hundred boys, built in 1826, and another with capacity for one hundred girls, funded by Mrs. Dooley. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban West
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Coordinates
- 52.99220, -6.96577
- Mapped area
- 8.25 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1225 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Saint Michael's. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Athy, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-04-27. How this page was prepared.