placenamesKells
Ceanannas
The parish’s nineteenth-century buildings preserve quieter histories of education and worship beside the better-known priory and mills.
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
- Ceanannas · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kells · English · main form
Place & story
The schoolmaster’s house
A small roadside house in Kells was built for a schoolmaster in 1868 and renovated in 1972. The architectural survey records rubble stonework, brick chimneystacks and a steep slate roof. Its windows retain pivoting fittings with cast-iron lattice glazing bars, giving an otherwise modest dwelling a distinctive pattern. The house records accommodation associated with teaching, rather than being identified by the inventory as the classroom building itself. [2]
Saint Mary’s in Glebe
Saint Mary’s Church of Ireland church was built and dedicated in 1844 to a design signed by Frederick Darley. Its granite bellcote and tall, narrow windows continue the Gothic theme around the rectangular nave. Inside, the Massy memorial window of 1934 was supplied by Franz Mayer and Company of Munich and London. This stained-glass addition belongs to a later phase of remembrance within the nineteenth-century church. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kilkenny
- Barony
- Shillelogher
- Barony
- Kells
- Coordinates
- 52.54450, -7.27407
- Mapped area
- 17.94 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1308 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kells. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Schoolmaster’s house, Kells, NIAH12315006 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Saint Mary’s Church, Glebe, NIAH12315011 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.