placenamesCastlemagner
Caisleán an Mhaignéaraigh
The local historical society records a twenty-first-century service at a site in the northern part of the parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Caisleán an Mhaignéaraigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Castlemagner · English · main form
Place & story
A service at an older worship site
Castlemagner Historical Society identifies a Mass rock at Kilguilky, in the northern part of the parish, and records a service there in 2004 celebrated by Father Stephen O’Mahony, parish priest of Castlemagner. The society presents the site within its account of outdoor Catholic worship during religious suppression. The recorded service gives the place a specific modern commemorative connection; it does not, by itself, date the rock’s first use or establish an uninterrupted history of worship there. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castlemagner. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mass Rock in Castlemagner, 30 August 2017 · Castlemagner Historical Society; website published by Ed O’Donoghue
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.