placenamesKillead
Cill Éad
The listed-building survey distinguishes the church’s consecration from the beginning of services.
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 Éad · Irish · main form
- Killead · English · main form
Place & story
Funding a chapel of ease
Gartree church was built as a chapel of ease to Killead’s parish church on Sir Hercules Pakenham’s estate. The historic-building survey records a £900 Board of First Fruits grant and £300 from Pakenham towards its £1,200 cost. He also provided an annual endowment of £100. Consecration took place on 6 December 1831, while services began on 27 May 1832. [2]
Remembering an estate agent
Parishioners erected the entrance archway in 1832 at a cost of £80. It commemorates Captain John Armstrong of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, also agent of the Pakenham estate, who died in 1830. The survey includes the gateway’s curved screen walls and end piers within the listing. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Massereene Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.64341, -6.19907 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 94.33 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1410878 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killead. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Gartree Church: HB20/14/014, historic-building survey, 19 May 1999 · Department for Communities, Historic Buildings Database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.