placenamesKillinkere
Cillín Chéir
Lewis separated an abandoned quarrying trade from an uncertain mineral discovery.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cillín Chéir · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killinkere · English · main form
Place & story
Slate and suspected zinc
Samuel Lewis reported in 1837 that Killinkere’s slate quarries had ceased working because the stone was poor in quality. At Durryham, he recorded the discovery of an ore thought to be zinc, which had not been worked. The two observations describe different circumstances: an activity that had stopped and a mineral identification that remained tentative, without an operating mine. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Barony
- Loughtee Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.89522, -7.07093
- Mapped area
- 64.59 km²
- Logainm ID
- 385 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killinkere. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killencare or Killenkere: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-04-28. How this page was prepared.