placenamesKilruane
Cill Ruáin
Lewis described widespread use of the drill system in a largely cultivated parish.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Ruáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilruane · English · main form
Place & story
Farming and church provision
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account places Kilruane across both Ormond baronies in County Tipperary. Most of its land was under tillage, and he described the drill system of agriculture as generally used. Limestone quarries and a bog of about fifty acres formed other elements of the parish landscape. Its church had been built in 1822 with an £800 gift from the Board of First Fruits. The payment was a grant rather than a loan. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Barony
- Ormond Upper
- Coordinates
- 52.89572, -8.14250
- Mapped area
- 15.65 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2197 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilruane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilruane — 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.