placenamesKilloe
Cill Eo
Lewis recorded six chapels across a wider network of named districts.
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 Eo · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killoe · English · main form
Place & story
Several centres of worship
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Killoe account names three Catholic districts: Moyne and Drimard, Drumlish and Ballinamuck, and Killoe and Ainbegs. Between them they contained six chapels. This arrangement placed worship in several centres across the extensive historical parish. Lewis also recorded a Presbyterian meeting house at Corboy, connected with the Synod of Ulster, adding another congregation to his account of the district’s religious life. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killoe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killoe, Longford: 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.