placenamesKiltinan
Cill Teimhneáin
Lewis described water sources within the castle and its demesne.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Teimhneáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kiltinan · English · main form
Place & story
Water beneath the castle
In 1837 Samuel Lewis described Kiltinan Castle standing on a steep limestone rock above the surrounding ground. A well within the castle was covered by a circular tower and reached by ninety steps. He distinguished this from a constantly flowing spring emerging from a limestone cavern elsewhere in the demesne. The nearby Clashanly river joined the Anner at the edge of the estate. His account gives the castle landscape several different sources of water, rather than a single well. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.43676, -7.63885
- Mapped area
- 20.69 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2302 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kiltinan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilteynan or Kiltinan, 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.