placenamesKilrea
Cill Ria
Kilrea is a civil parish in Derry. Explore its recorded names and geographic context.
Recorded locationKilrea54.93489° N · 6.54890° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ieOpen in OpenStreetMap ↗
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Ria · Irish · main form
- Kilrea · English · main form
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Derry
- Barony
- Coleraine
- Barony
- Loughinsholin
- Coordinates
- 54.93489, -6.54890 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 2908 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilrea. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2009-11-02. How this page was prepared.