placenamesKilcowanmore
Cill Chuáin Mhór
Lewis described how a stipend connected Kilcowanmore and Clongeen through Tintern.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chuáin Mhór · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilcowanmore · English · main form
Place & story
Payment for parish duties
In 1837, Samuel Lewis recorded Kilcowanmore’s £70 in tithes as payable entirely to F. Leigh. Leigh in turn provided a stipend to Tintern’s curate for clerical duties in Kilcowanmore and Clongeen. This was an arrangement linking separated parishes: Lewis explicitly noted that several other parishes lay between them. He did not give the stipend’s amount, so the £70 tithe total cannot be treated as the curate’s income. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcowanmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcowanmore in 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.