placenamesKilmeena
Cill Mhíona
The parish’s early nineteenth-century church buildings had separate recorded costs and funding.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhíona · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilmeena · English · main form
Place & story
A chapel and a later parish church
Samuel Lewis recorded Kilmeena’s Catholic chapel as a substantial building erected in 1822 at a cost of £1,200. His 1837 account also dates the Church of Ireland parish church to 1835, supported by a £900 grant from the Board of First Fruits. These were distinct building projects. The parish had no clergy residence, although six acres on Calf Island formed its glebe. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Coordinates
- 53.83354, -9.55619 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 44.83 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1793 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmeena. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmina, Mayo: 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.