placenamesTikillin
Tigh Cillín
Lewis recorded a detached district and an ecclesiastical reorganisation that treated it differently.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tigh Cillín · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Tikillin · English · main form
Place & story
Two separated portions
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Tikillin, written as Tickillen, places most of the Wexford parish on the north-eastern bank of the Slaney. A detached portion lay at the northern end of the estuary and included part of Castlebridge village. The main portion adjoined the new mail road to Enniscorthy and Dublin and had a connection to the opposite bank by a bridge made of American oak. [2]
A change in the benefice
In 1829 the larger portion was separated from the ecclesiastical union of Ardcolme and joined with Kilpatrick to form a distinct benefice. The detached district remained attached to Ardcolme. Lewis therefore described an ecclesiastical arrangement that did not simply treat the whole civil parish as one unit. The distinction should not be read as the creation of a new civil parish in that year. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Coordinates
- 52.38295, -6.49881
- Mapped area
- 13.94 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2633 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tikillin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tickillen, 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.