placenamesKillurin
Cill Liúráin
An early nineteenth-century account records clerical housing and parish unions, while a surviving bridge marks the railway’s later arrival.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Liúráin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killurin · English · main form
Place & story
A house supported by First Fruits
Samuel Lewis recorded a Killurin glebe house costing £1,200, with a £100 contribution from the Board of First Fruits in 1816. Its glebe comprised twenty acres. His 1837 account also describes an ecclesiastical union joining Killurin with Kilbride-Glynn, Chapel-charon, Whitechurch-Glynn and Ballyheogue. These administrative links extended beyond the civil parish, while providing the incumbent with a residence and supporting land. [2]
The railway passes above the road
A single-span bridge in Killurin carries the railway over a local road. Opened in 1872 with the Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway extension, it combines red-brick abutments with granite parapets and steel girders. The architectural inventory also records an Ordnance Survey benchmark. That small survey mark gives the crossing a second historical role as a fixed reference for mapping, alongside its purpose of separating rail and road traffic. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Coordinates
- 52.38563, -6.57579
- Mapped area
- 7.92 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2654 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killurin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killurin, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Killurin railway bridge, NIAH15703217 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.