placenamesKilmacallan
Cill Mhic Calláin
Lewis recorded both a gift and a loan for the church’s erection, followed by a separate repair grant.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhic Calláin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilmacallan · English · main form
Place & story
Two stages of institutional support
The church serving Kilmacallan parish stood in Riverstown in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. For its erection in 1817, the Board of First Fruits had provided a £900 gift and a £500 loan. Lewis separately recorded a recent £183 repair grant from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. These were different kinds of assistance at different stages of the building’s history: money contributed and lent for construction, followed by funding for repairs. His figures do not establish the church’s total construction cost. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmacallan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmacallane: 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.