placenamesKillenagh
Cill Éanach
Two recorded buildings preserve traces of transport and milling around the Owenavorragh River.
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 Éanach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killenagh · English · main form
Place & story
The river crossing
Killenagh Bridge was already standing in 1839. Its two segmental arches carry a humped roadway over the Owenavorragh, with a triangular cutwater dividing the flow at the central pier. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage recognises it as part of Wexford’s historic civil engineering fabric. [2]
A mill becomes a farmhouse
Raheenbeg House in the Killenagh locality incorporates a building shown as Killenagh Corn Mill on the Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1839. By 1900, it was a farmhouse associated with the Black family. Its later domestic character includes a projecting porch, paired window arrangements and decorative timber bargeboards. The conversion preserves an older industrial building within a rural home. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Civil parish
- Killenagh
- Within
- Killenagh
- Coordinates
- 52.59774, -6.27307 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413885 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killenagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killenagh Bridge, Ballinadrummin — NIAH 15701702 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Raheenbeg House, Raheen Beg, Killenagh — NIAH 15701703 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.