placenamesKilteel
Cill Chéile
Lewis recorded a seasonal trading calendar for the Kildare village.
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 Chéile · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilteel · English · main form
Place & story
The fair calendar in 1837
Samuel Lewis recorded four annual fair days at Kilteel in 1837: 1 May, 24 June, 29 September and 2 November. He placed the village on the road from Dublin to Ballymore-Eustace and noted a constabulary station among its forty-three houses. The fairs gave this small roadside settlement repeated occasions for trade from late spring into autumn. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Salt South
- Coordinates
- 53.24076, -6.52810
- Mapped area
- 13.88 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1241 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilteel. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilteel, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.