placenamesKilmeane
Cill Mhiáin
Lewis records local limestone uses and a cemetery retained within Moate Park’s demesne.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhiáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilmeane · English · main form
Place & story
Stone for buildings and mantelpieces
Limestone quarried in Kilmeane parish was used locally for buildings and made into mantelpieces, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. He also described Lord Crofton’s residence at Moate Park as a substantial limestone building within a wooded demesne. His survey records stone as both a building material and a material for interior fittings. [2]
Burials beside the old church
The same demesne contained the remains of an older church. Its cemetery was still being used when Lewis wrote. The description preserves a burial place continuing in use within the grounds of a country estate, rather than an entirely abandoned ecclesiastical site. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Coordinates
- 53.57841, -8.12749
- Mapped area
- 36.34 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2085 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmeane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmean or Kilmain: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2023-06-29. How this page was prepared.