placenamesKillaloan
Cill Ó Luáin
A cross-county parish account distinguishes the location of Darinlar castle.
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 Ó Luáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killaloan · English · main form
Place & story
A keep and vaults in 1837
Samuel Lewis explicitly placed the ruins of Darinlar castle in the Waterford part of Killaloan parish in 1837. He described a surviving keep and some vaults, with ivy growing over the remains. This location matters because his parish account also included land across the county boundary in Tipperary. The description establishes the castle’s ruined condition by that date, without giving a construction year or naming its builders. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Glenahiry
- Barony
- Upperthird
- Coordinates
- 52.34494, -7.63373
- Mapped area
- 13.04 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2436 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killaloan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killoloan, 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.