placenamesKilbride
Cill Bhríde
Beyond Manor Kilbride’s estate buildings, parish records describe a mountain landscape and a compact nineteenth-century church.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bhríde · Irish · main form
- Kilbride · English · main form
Place & story
Saint John’s at Cloghleagh
Saint John’s Church was built in 1834 with a short nave, small transepts and a two-stage tower. Squared granite walls and pointed windows give it a restrained Gothic character. Its entrance passes through the tower, beneath battlements and corner pinnacles. The architectural inventory dates the chancel to about the 1890s, identifying an addition to the earlier building. Stained glass and lattice glazing occur within the windows, while a small graveyard surrounds the church. [2]
Pasture, bog and private schools
In 1837 Lewis described Kilbride as a mountainous parish where pasture predominated, with extensive bog particularly around Shankhill. Kippure Lodge was the residence of G. Moore, whose farming establishment he singled out. He also recorded three private schools teaching about a hundred children. These references place education and farming within a dispersed rural district. Their figures concern the historical parish, rather than the population or school attendance of Manor Kilbride village alone. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.19852, -6.43041
- Mapped area
- 53.18 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2773 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbride. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint John’s Church, Kilbride, Cloghleagh, NIAH16400501 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kilbride, Lower Talbotstown: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland1837 · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.