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An Chill
At Kill in Drumhurt, old memorials and Saint Mark’s Church preserve distinct layers of the locality’s religious history.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Chill · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kill · English · main form
Place & story
A memorial recorded by local volunteers
During an October 2011 workshop in Kill graveyard, about twenty people helped record its memorials through photographs, location records and inscription surveys. The team examined a stone erected by Philip Olwill in 1768. Its reverse carries a skull and crossbones above a coffin, with an hourglass and bell alongside. The firsthand account describes how low sunlight revealed faint carving and helped the volunteers read details that were harder to see earlier in the morning. [2]
Saint Mark’s Church
Saint Mark’s Church was built in 1855 to Joseph Welland’s design, replacing an earlier church in a separate graveyard to the south-west. Its limestone walls, projecting entrance porch, chancel and vestry give the building a carefully articulated outline. The architectural survey particularly notes its sloping lower walls and the bell-ringer’s chamber at the west end. A triplet of stained-glass windows lights the east end. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Tullygarvey
- Civil parish
- Kildrumsherdan
- Within
- Drumhurt
- Coordinates
- 54.02689, -7.11486 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 127347 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- A Mortality Memorial in Kill Graveyard, Co. Cavan, 27 October 2011 · Finn, Historic Graves
- Saint Mark’s Church of Ireland Church, Drumhurt, survey 40402203 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-03-19. How this page was prepared.