placenamesKilronan
Cill Rónáin
Louise Nugent’s site visit recorded an unusual chamber at the ruined church in Glebe.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Rónáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilronan · English · main form
Place & story
A room with an uncertain purpose
During a 2013 visit to Kilronan’s medieval church at Glebe, Louise Nugent described a small chamber built into its east wall. A pointed sandstone doorway led into a space about 2.03 metres long and 0.85 metres wide. It contained a stone seat and a wall cupboard, with flat stone lintels overhead and a small square window in the east wall. Nugent left its purpose unresolved, considering possible religious uses without identifying it conclusively as an anchorite’s cell. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilronan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilronan medieval church and holy well at Glebe, County Waterford,5 April2013 · Louise Nugent, Pilgrimage in Medieval Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.