placenamesKilvemnon
Cill Mheanmnáin
Lewis connects the parish’s river with a working mill in his 1837 description.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mheanmnáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilvemnon · English · main form
Place & story
Water power in the parish
Samuel Lewis recorded the River Anner running underground for about a quarter of a mile in Kilvemnon parish. He also identified it as the river powering Compsey Mill. His 1837 description places this water-powered industry within a landscape of arable fields, pasture, plantations and hedgerows, with some land low and wet. The account does not identify the mill’s machinery or output. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Slievardagh
- Coordinates
- 52.49864, -7.50222
- Mapped area
- 42.78 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2360 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilvemnon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilvemnon: 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.