placenamesSaint Helen's
Cill Eilleáin
Lewis recorded a coastal source of manure under the parish’s alternative name, Killilane.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Eilleáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Saint Helen's · English · main form
Place & story
Coastal farming in 1837
Saint Helen’s, also called Killilane, lay near the southern end of Rosslare Bay in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Its land was chiefly cultivated, with seaweed used as manure. Lewis also explained that it formed part of Kilrane for civil purposes. The entry records both an agricultural use of coastal material and an administrative relationship, without identifying particular farms or amounts of seaweed gathered. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Saint Helen's. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killilane or St.Helen’s, 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.