placenamesLoughan or Castlekeeran
Lewis distinguished the church arrangements on either side of the county boundary.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Loughan or Castlekeeran · English · main form
Place & story
A payment for occasional duties
For the Cavan part of Loughan or Castlekeeran, Samuel Lewis recorded an annual payment of £10 to the curate of Mounter-Connaught in 1837. The parish’s impropriator, the Marquess of Headfort, provided it for occasional clerical duties in that county portion. Its Protestant inhabitants attended Virginia church. Lewis contrasted their arrangement with that of the Meath parishioners, who attended Kells church; the £10 was not described as a payment covering both groups. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Coordinates
- 53.78539, -7.01199
- Logainm ID
- 390 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Loughan or Castlekeeran. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Loghan or Loughan in A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-11. How this page was prepared.