placenamesKillanny
Cill Eanaigh
Lewis’s account of the wider cross-county parish distinguishes two chapels and five private schools.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Eanaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killanny · English · main form
Place & story
A parish divided between Catholic districts
Writing about the historic parish extending across Monaghan and Louth, Samuel Lewis described two Catholic chapels in 1837. The chapel at Corcreagh belonged to the Carrickmacross district, while the other stood in the village he called Killaney. His account placed part of the parish in Carrickmacross’s Catholic district and part at the head of another district that also included townlands in Louth parish. [2]
Private schools and Sunday teaching
Lewis recorded about 270 children attending five private schools, alongside a Sunday school. Those figures concern his wider parish description, rather than a separately counted Monaghan portion. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killanny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killaney, Monaghan and Louth: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.