placenamesCastleinch or Inchyolaghan
Inse Uí Uallacháin
Lewis recorded an Ecclesiastical Commissioners grant for the old parish church.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Inse Uí Uallacháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Castleinch or Inchyolaghan · English · main form
Place & story
Repairs and family burials
The church at Castleinch was already described as ancient when Samuel Lewis published his parish account in 1837. He reported a recent grant of £134 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for its repair and identified it as the burial-place of the Cuffe family. Writing under the name Inchiolaghan, Lewis also recorded a Catholic chapel and two separate schools: a public school with about ninety children and a private school with about seventy. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kilkenny
- Barony
- Shillelogher
- Coordinates
- 52.62092, -7.29147
- Mapped area
- 9.6 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1273 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castleinch or Inchyolaghan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Inchiolaghan or Castleinch, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.