placenamesKilmacnevan
Cill Mhic Naomháin
Lewis’s 1837 description records a May fair, the Royal Canal and remains of two churches.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhic Naomháin · Irish · main form
- Kilmacnevan · English · main form
Place & story
Trading and older buildings
Samuel Lewis described Kilmacnevan under the spelling Kilmacnevin in 1837. The Royal Canal passed through the parish, and a large cattle fair took place at Emper, which he wrote as Empor, on the last day of May. He also recorded remains of Emper Castle and an old fort, without assigning them dates. His account distinguished the ruined church of Kilmacnevin from another church at Churchtown, which he identified as the Tuite family’s burial place. These are descriptions from the nineteenth-century account, rather than a survey of what survives at the sites today. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmacnevan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmacnevin, 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.