placenamesKiltennell
Cill tSinill
Lewis distinguished the ruined church site from the parish’s functioning church at Killedmund.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill tSinill · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kiltennell · English · main form
Place & story
Different church sites
In Kiltennell parish, County Carlow, Samuel Lewis placed the functioning church at Killedmund in 1837. He separately described an old church covered with ivy and the remains of a chapel at its eastern end. Captain E. Byrne had erected that chapel in 1789, according to the account. Fragments of a granite cross and a cairn were also recorded. Lewis’s wording distinguishes the older ruined site from the church then in use, without giving a date for the old church itself. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Idrone East
- Coordinates
- 52.60342, -6.85258
- Mapped area
- 45.14 km²
- Logainm ID
- 336 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kiltennell. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kiltennel (Carlow), 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.