placenamesKilsharvan
Cill Searbháin
Lewis placed an industrial concern beside Armstrong’s grounds and the old church ruins.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Searbháin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilsharvan · English · main form
Place & story
Industry and the old burial ground
Extensive bleach works stood on the Nanny in Kilsharvan when Samuel Lewis described the parish in 1837. He identified their proprietor as A. Armstrong. The old church’s ruins stood beside Armstrong’s landscaped grounds, and its burial ground remained in use. Lewis gives no workforce or output figure for the works. His account records industrial activity alongside a continuing burial place, without dating either the works’ foundation or the church’s abandonment. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Duleek Upper
- Barony
- Duleek Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.67127, -6.34539
- Mapped area
- 8.89 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1959 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilsharvan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilsharvan in 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.