placenamesKilmokea
Cill Mhic Aodha
The house on Great Island preserves a distinctive roof and garden-facing arrangement.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhic Aodha · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilmokea · English · main form
Place & story
A house designed towards the lawn
Kilmokea House, the former Church of Ireland glebe house on Great Island, has a roughly square plan and a three-bay entrance front sheltered by a later porch. Historic Houses of Ireland describes a different arrangement towards the garden: four bays face the lawn, with the rear rooms raised above it. The hipped roof brings the flues together into one long central chimney stack. Beyond the house, linked garden spaces are complemented by woodland across a small road, where a reconstructed millpond supplies a stream running towards the Barrow. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmokea. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmokea, Historic Houses of Ireland · Historic Houses of Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.