placenamesKillea
Cill Aodha
The church at Dunmore East combines an 1817 core with substantial Victorian additions.
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 Aodha · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killea · English · main form
Place & story
The First Fruits church
Saint Andrew’s, identified in the architectural inventory as Killea Church, stands in Dunmore East. The inventory dates its original building to 1817. Samuel Lewis’s contemporary parish account gives the same year and records a £900 gift from the Board of First Fruits towards its erection. That contribution is not an explicitly stated total construction cost. [2] [3]
An enlarged Victorian building
The inventory dates the church’s enlargement to 1880–1881, when a transept, chancel and corner tower with a broach spire were added. Its May 2003 survey recorded locally sourced red sandstone, cut-stone dressings and an exposed timber roof. The tower and spire therefore belong to the later campaign, rather than being assumed part of the 1817 church. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killea. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Andrew’s Church (Killea), NIAH22817019 — surveyed 27 May 2003 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Killea, Waterford — 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.