placenamesKilbryan
Cill Bhraoin
Lewis described Castle Island’s rooms and portraits in his nineteenth-century parish account.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bhraoin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilbryan · English · main form
Place & story
The castle in 1837
Samuel Lewis’s account of Kilbryan, entered under the spelling Kilbrine in 1837, describes Castle Island on Lough Key as almost occupied by Mac Dermot’s Castle. Viscount Lorton had partially rebuilt it, and Lewis recorded rooms with old portraits inside. His description captures the island building after this work, without identifying the portraits or giving a date for the rebuilding. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbryan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbrine, cross-referenced from Kilbryan — 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.