placenamesKilkenny West
Cill Chainnigh
Kilkenny West is a civil parish in Westmeath. Explore its recorded names and geographic context.
Recorded locationKilkenny West53.48912° N · 7.85379° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ieOpen in OpenStreetMap ↗
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 Chainnigh · Irish · main form
- Kilkenny West · English · main form
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.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.