placenamesKillyon
Cill Liatháin
Historic Houses of Ireland describes successive changes to the house’s layout and frontage.
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 Liatháin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killyon · English · main form
Place & story
A ballroom behind the main range
Killyon Manor’s main house remains only one room deep, according to Historic Houses of Ireland. A ballroom was added behind it in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, while a perpendicular wing preserves the oldest part of the Georgian building. The frontage was remodelled around 1800, with a small Ionic portico and long screen walls containing blind arches. These details describe additions and changes to the building; the account’s suggestion that an earlier tower house may survive within it remains a possibility. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.48678, -6.99899
- Mapped area
- 17.4 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1883 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killyon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killyon Manor · Historic Houses of Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-08-07. How this page was prepared.