placenamesKilkenny West
Cill Chainnigh
Lewis distinguished a house already financed in 1813 from church rebuilding still intended in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chainnigh · Irish · main form
- Kilkenny West · English · main form
Place & story
Completed building and an unfulfilled plan
Kilkenny West’s glebe house was built in 1813 with assistance from the Board of First Fruits: a £300 gift and a £500 loan, according to Samuel Lewis. His 1837 account describes the parish church as an old building containing a monument to two friars. Rebuilding was then intended; Lewis does not report that it had been carried out. His description records two different stages of provision for the parish clergy: an established residence, supported partly by borrowing, and a church whose replacement remained a proposal. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Kilkenny West
- Coordinates
- 53.48912, -7.85379
- Mapped area
- 40.58 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2469 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilkenny West. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilkenny West: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.