placenamesKilgrant
Cill Chrónata
Lewis’s parish account records a bridge east of Clonmel without dating its construction.
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 Chrónata · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilgrant · English · main form
Place & story
A bridge and the river junction
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Kilgrant, also called Powerstown, identified a stone bridge over the Suir built at the expense of Sir Thomas Osborne, who had died before the account was written. Lewis placed Barclay Clibborn’s flour mills and residence near the junction of the Suir and Anner. The bridge’s funding and the mills’ riverside position are distinct details: the account does not identify Clibborn as the bridge’s builder, give its cost or establish a construction year. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa East
- Coordinates
- 52.37388, -7.66252
- Mapped area
- 11.67 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2291 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilgrant. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilgrant — 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.