placenamesLoughan or Castlekeeran
Lewis recorded a sculptured cross and an August gathering in the wider historical parish.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Loughan or Castlekeeran · English · main form
Place & story
An August visit to the well
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Loughan, also called Castlekeeran, records a small ruined church dedicated to St Kieran beside the river, with a large sculptured stone cross in its cemetery. He also noted a holy well visited on the first Sunday in August. This is evidence of a recorded gathering at the well in the nineteenth century; his account gives no particular ritual, healing claim or explanation for choosing that day. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.75775, -6.95489
- Mapped area
- 39.99 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1894 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Loughan or Castlekeeran. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Loghan or Loughan, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.