placenamesKilburne
Cill Bhairrinn
A nineteenth-century church preserves several phases of alteration.
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 Bhairrinn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilburne · English · main form
Place & story
The church at Butlerstown North
At nearby Butlerstown North, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary combines a cruciform building of about 1840 with later additions. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates its rubble-stone belfry to around 1890 and the projecting porches on its transepts to about 1940. Pointed windows contain stained glass, while the western window has a different, elliptical-headed form. The churchyard also includes cut-stone memorials and a small gabled mausoleum dated by the inventory to around 1865. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.21667, -7.16345
- Mapped area
- 14.33 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2435 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilburne. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Butlerstown North, National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, registration 22901708 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.