placenamesKilcavan
Cill Chaomháin
Lewis recorded separate contributions to the church and glebe house in southern Wexford.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chaomháin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilcavan · English · main form
Place & story
Church and house assistance
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilcavan parish in Bargy, County Wexford, records a church erected in 1820 with a £600 gift and £130 loan from the Board of First Fruits. A further £190 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners supported repairs. The glebe house received different assistance in 1821: a £400 gift and £330 loan. These contributions concern separate buildings and phases of work. [2]
A parish within a larger benefice
The parish had been united ecclesiastically with Bannow in 1806. Lewis also recorded four separate portions of glebe, together comprising four and a half acres. This is the southern Wexford Kilcavan near Bannow, distinct from the parish near Gorey that he called Kilkevan or Little Limerick. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcavan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcavan or Kilkevan, Bargy, 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.