placenamesKillone
Cill Eoin
Lewis records a devotional gathering near the ruined abbey and lake.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Eoin · Irish · main form
- Killone · English · main form
Place & story
A county-wide religious observance
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Killone account places a holy well dedicated to Saint John a short distance from the abbey ruins. He records people coming from different parts of County Clare on the eve of the saint’s anniversary. This is evidence of a remembered devotional gathering associated with the well and abbey landscape. His brief description does not specify the visitors’ prayers, the ritual followed or any belief in particular cures. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killone. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killone: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.