placenamesKillea
Cill Fhéich
The electoral division crosses older parish boundaries, bringing several distinct historical communities within one administrative district.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Fhéich · Irish · main form
- Killea · English · main form
Place & story
Several parishes within one division
Killea electoral division includes Carrigans and Dunmore, while other townlands belong to the civil parishes of Allsaints and Taughboyne. Haw is one of the Taughboyne townlands within the division. This distinction places its mill and church within Killea’s wider district without treating the electoral division and the older Killea parish as identical territories. [2]
A surviving mill wheel at Haw
The former corn mill at Haw dates from about 1830. Its waterwheel survives outside the gable, and a millrace runs to the south. The two-storey rubble-stone building was extended, while nearby structures include outbuildings and remains associated with a kiln. The heritage survey recorded the complex as disused and in poor condition, but the wheel still provides a direct physical link with local water-powered grain processing. [3]
The road over the mill stream
A single-arch bridge at Haw carries the road across a small mill stream. The survey tentatively dates it to about 1800, acknowledging the difficulty of establishing a precise construction date. Its semicircular arch, rubble limestone walls and stone coping survive around a narrow carriageway. The crossing records investment in local roads alongside the area’s milling landscape. [4]
Medieval fabric in Taughboyne church
Taughboyne Church of Ireland at Haw is dated 1627 but incorporates older medieval fabric. Its five-bay body was renovated around 1830. A plaque above the entrance names rector Thomas Bruce and bears the 1627 date; carved fragments remain beside the doorway. The churchyard’s collection of gravestones adds further layers of evidence around a building whose present form combines several periods of construction. [5]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killea. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killea electoral division: townland subunits · Placenames Database of Ireland
- Corn Mill, Haw, registration 40905514 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Haw bridge, registration 40905538 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Taughboyne Church of Ireland, registration 40905513 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-05-09. How this page was prepared.