placenamesKillonahan
Cill Onchon
Lewis described a parish whose Church of Ireland congregation used a neighbouring church.
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 Onchon · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killonahan · English · main form
Place & story
The old church in 1837
Killonahan’s church lay in ruins in 1837. Samuel Lewis attributed its destruction to the war of 1641, without specifying when during the conflict it occurred. He recorded that Church of Ireland parishioners attended the church at Kilpeacon instead. The parish had no glebe house, although a small glebe remained. His account distinguishes the ruined local building from the neighbouring church then used for worship; it does not identify a rebuilding scheme. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Barony
- Coshma
- Coordinates
- 52.57334, -8.71773
- Mapped area
- 8.4 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1567 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killonahan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killelonehan, 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.