placenamesKillinane
Cill Fhíonáin
Lewis recorded an arrangement for inhabitants whose own old church stood in ruins.
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 Fhíonáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killinane · English · main form
Place & story
Using the church at Wells
Killinane’s old church was already ruined when Samuel Lewis described the parish in 1837. His account records its annexation to Wells for church purposes and states that Killinane’s inhabitants enjoyed the rights of Wells’s church as though they were its parishioners. He associated this arrangement with an Act of George IV’s reign. The account does not date the ruin of Killinane’s own church or explain how it happened. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Idrone East
- Barony
- Idrone West
- Coordinates
- 52.71937, -6.99141
- Mapped area
- 9.18 km²
- Logainm ID
- 334 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killinane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killinane, Carlow, in 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.