placenamesKilmoon
Lewis recorded two different forms of support for the Meath parish church.
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
- Kilmoon · English · main form
Place & story
Building and repairing the church
Kilmoon’s church was built in 1816 with a five-hundred-pound loan from the Board of First Fruits, according to Samuel Lewis. By his 1837 account it had received a separate repair grant of a hundred and six pounds from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Lewis placed the plain building at the parish’s north-western extremity, with a glebe house nearby. The two payments concern different phases: the loan supported construction, while the later grant paid towards repairs. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmoon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmoon, Meath, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
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