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Killurin

Cill Liúráin

The church’s monuments and a surviving police building add detail to Killurin’s institutional history.

Recorded locationKillurin52.38016° N · 6.57737° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

cillchurch

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Cill Liúráin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Killurin · English · main form

Place & story

Memorial windows

Killurin Church preserves an east window commemorating the Hughes family, dated 1896. The architectural inventory also identifies a 1910 memorial window for Lieutenant-Colonel Jervis-White, supplied by Dublin’s An Túr Gloine studio. It attributes the design to Alfred Ernest Child, distinguishing that attribution from a documented signature. [2]

People & connections

A friend’s monument

An adjacent mausoleum is dated 1816. Its cast-iron Gothic monument commemorates the Reverend Abraham Swanne and records that his friend James Edward Devereux directed its erection. Sandstone walls and a pointed vaulted roof enclose later marble memorials as well, making this small building a separate commemorative space within the church grounds. [3]

The constabulary house

The former constabulary barracks, now called Killurin House, retains a projecting porch and small gables above its attic windows. The inventory identifies Sergeant Timothy Maher as its occupant in 1901. Its later residential use preserves a building associated with policing, distinct from the older estate house mentioned in nineteenth-century descriptions of the parish. [4]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Wexford
Civil parish
Killurin
Coordinates
52.38016, -6.57737
Mapped area
1.49 km²
Logainm ID
54061 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1901 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Killurin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Killurin Church, NIAH 15703701 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Killurin Church mausoleum, NIAH 15703702 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  4. Killurin House, former constabulary barracks, NIAH 15703213 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  5. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.