placenamesKells Lower
Ceanannas Íochtarach
Lewis recorded a different funding arrangement at Kilmainhamwood.
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
- Ceanannas Íochtarach · Irish · main form
- Kells Lower · English · main form
Place & story
A payment and an augmentation fund
Kilmainhamwood parish in Lower Kells was tithe-free, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. Its vicar instead received a money payment from the holder of the rectory, A. S. Hussey, supplemented from Primate Boulter’s fund. Lewis recorded neither a glebe-house nor glebe land. The church, built in 1803, had separately received £135 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for repairs. These were distinct sources of clerical support and building expenditure. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kells Lower. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmainham-Wood: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2020-03-02. How this page was prepared.