placenamesKilcornan
Cill Churnáin
Lewis credited J. Waller with funding for both the parish church and a Catholic chapel at Boherbuie.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Churnáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilcornan · English · main form
Place & story
A gift and a promise to repay
J. Waller contributed to two places of worship in Kilcornan parish in 1832, according to Samuel Lewis. The parish church cost £1,500: £800 came as a Board of First Fruits loan, while Waller gave the remainder and undertook to repay the loan as well. Lewis separately records a Catholic chapel at Boherbuie built at Waller’s expense in the same year. His account describes both buildings as constructed of hewn marble, but gives no separate cost for the chapel. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcornan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcornan, County Limerick: 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.