placenamesKilbride
Cill Bhríde
Drone imagery added a new chapter to the archaeology of this small Waterford parish in 2018.
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 Bhríde · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbride · English · main form
Place & story
A church enclosure seen from the air
A drone image taken by Simon Dowling in summer 2018 revealed a large circular enclosure in cultivated ground at Kilbride North. About eighty metres across, it surrounded the recorded medieval church and graveyard. A second circle, about twenty-five metres in diameter, appeared to overlap its southwestern edge. The National Monuments Service’s 2019 records preserve that apparent relationship, without assigning a precise construction date to either enclosure. The discovery shows how aerial observation can recover the outline of a church landscape whose remains are difficult to recognise on the ground. [2] [3]
The White House and its garden
South of the church site stands the ruin marked as a mansion house on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ordnance Survey maps. The archaeological record notes its local name, the White House, and places it at the northwestern corner of a rectangular walled garden. Its surviving masonry includes tall window openings. The record considers the building probably eighteenth-century. An older local association with a dispossessed branch of the Power family is recorded as a belief, rather than established ownership of the surviving structure. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.18750, -7.17074
- Mapped area
- 7.11 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2387 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbride. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbride North ecclesiastical enclosure, WA017-050006- · Jean Farrelly, Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service; 9 December 2019
- Kilbride North enclosure, WA017-050007- · Jean Farrelly, Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service; 9 December 2019
- Kilbride North White House, WA017-051---- · Michael Moore, Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service; 6 January 2011
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.