placenamesKillinaboy
Cill Iníne Baoith
Medieval masonry and a modern community art project preserve different kinds of local memory.
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 Iníne Baoith · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killinaboy · English · main form
Place & story
The old church
Tessa Garton’s survey records the stump of a round tower north of Killinaboy’s church. A double-armed cross is built into the west gable, while a sheela-na-gig stands above the south doorway. The survey identifies rebuilding in the fifteenth or sixteenth century that incorporated earlier stonework. It records the church as ruined in 1615 and repaired in 1715. [2]
X-PO
Artist Deirdre O’Mahony opened X-PO in Kilnaboy’s former post office in December 2007. Her account describes exhibitions, weekly groups and conversations about local knowledge and genealogy. An installation used objects belonging to former postmaster Mattie Rynne, while the Peter Rees Archive brought together photographs of the community. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Inchiquin
- Civil parish
- Killinaboy
- Within
- Killinaboy
- Coordinates
- 52.97383, -9.08679 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412557 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killinaboy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- St Findelu, Killinaboy, report 8907 · Tessa Garton, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
- X-PO, 2007–present · Deirdre O’Mahony
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.