placenamesKillinaboy
Cill Iníne Baoith
A church at Crossard passed through two religious uses before falling vacant.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Iníne Baoith · Irish · main form
- Killinaboy · English · main form
Place & story
From Moravian church to Catholic chapel
Samuel Lewis recorded a Moravian church built at Crossard in 1793. The congregation soon dissolved and the building deteriorated. It subsequently served as a Catholic chapel, but was unoccupied when he described Killinaboy parish in 1837. His account preserves a sequence of changing uses for the same building, without establishing what survived at the site later. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killinaboy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilneboy: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.