placenamesKilculliheen
Cill Choilchín
Lewis connected the medieval religious house with Saint Mary de Hogges and Waterford’s corporation.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Choilchín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilculliheen · English · main form
Place & story
The house called De Bello Portu
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account identifies Kilculliheen’s medieval nunnery as a dependent house of Saint Mary de Hogges near Dublin. He records endowments from King John and David Fitz-Milo, and gives De Bello Portu as another name for the institution. At the dissolution, he states, it was granted to Waterford’s corporation. These connections concern the nunnery, rather than the nineteenth-century parish church, for which his account separately records a Board of First Fruits loan in 1820. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kilkenny
- Barony
- Kilculliheen
- Coordinates
- 52.26616, -7.09926
- Mapped area
- 9.87 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1314 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilculliheen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilculliheen or Kilcloheen: 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.