placenamesKilbeacon
Cill Bhéacáin
Lewis recorded a substantial earthwork within the parish in 1837.
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 Bhéacáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbeacon · English · main form
Place & story
A bank and surrounding ditch
Samuel Lewis’s account of Kilbeacon describes a large fort at Earlsrath, surrounded by a ditch and a bank about twenty feet high. He gave the enclosed area as roughly seventy yards by fifty-five and noted that it contained buildings. The measurements distinguish the enclosure from a passing place-name reference, but the account does not identify the buildings or establish when the earthwork was constructed. These are historical observations published in 1837, rather than measurements of its present condition. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kilkenny
- Barony
- Knocktopher
- Coordinates
- 52.38456, -7.16267
- Mapped area
- 13.78 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1309 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbeacon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbeacon, 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.