placenamesKilgefin
Cill Geifin
Lewis’s 1837 account distinguishes a completed church from work in progress in the wider Catholic district.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Geifin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilgefin · English · main form
Place & story
The church built in 1824
Samuel Lewis, using the heading Kilgriffin for this Roscommon parish, recorded a plain church erected in 1824 with help from a £200 gift by the Board of First Fruits. He also recorded a glebe-house and ten acres of glebe. The gift was assistance towards building the church, rather than a stated total cost. [2]
A chapel in progress
The wider Catholic district described by Lewis comprised Kilgefin, Kilbride and Clontuskert. It had chapels at Ballagh and Ballyleague, with another under construction at Four-mile House in 1837. His notice records work in progress there, without supplying a completion or opening date. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Ballintober South
- Coordinates
- 53.69313, -8.08765
- Mapped area
- 24.63 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2079 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilgefin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilgriffin: 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.