placenamesKilmanman
Cill na mBanbhán
Lewis separated visible oak framing at Lough Annagh from a tradition about its occupants.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill na mBanbhán · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilmanman · English · main form
Place & story
A house on the water
Samuel Lewis recorded oak framing visible in the shallow middle of Lough Annagh in 1837. He also reported a local tradition that insurgents had built a wooden house on the platform during the war of 1641 and travelled out by boat at night to raid the countryside. The timber was an observed feature in his account; the occupants and wartime use belonged to the story he recorded, rather than to a securely dated archaeological identification. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Tinnahinch
- Coordinates
- 53.14509, -7.56130
- Mapped area
- 68.34 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1444 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmanman. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmanman or Clonaslee: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.