placenamesKilcorney
Cill Coirne
The restoration of Kilcorney’s church brought local worship back from temporary accommodation.
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 Coirne · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilcorney · English · main form
Place & story
A Christmas dedication
At St Nicholas’s rededication, community representative Pat Sheehan recalled that Bishop Timothy Murphy had first blessed and dedicated the church on Christmas Day 1856. Pat Golden’s local account preserves that connection between the nineteenth-century building and its later congregation. [2]
Restoration after Ophelia
Storm Ophelia severely damaged the church. Following repairs and modernisation, Bishop William Crean rededicated it, as reported by Golden in January 2020. During the closure, ceremonies had taken place in the community centre. The returning congregation’s music combined the church choir with pupils from Kilcorney National School. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Civil parish
- Kilcorney
- Within
- Kilcorney
- Coordinates
- 52.06714, -8.96255 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412789 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcorney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- St Nicholas Church Re-Dedication, 26 January 2020 · Pat Golden, Millstreet.ie
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.