placenamesKilmacrenan
Cill Mhic Réanáin
Plantation records distinguish this wider district from the village that shares its name.
The name
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 Mhic Réanáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilmacrenan · English · main form
Place & story
Soldiers and Irish grantees
The 2010 booklet County Donegal and the Plantation of Ulster identifies Doe and Fanad together as Kilmacrenan. It records fourteen land awards, one shared, to Crown servitors in this district. Among the recipients were Sir Ralph Bingley and John Vaughan, both associated with Sir Henry Docwra’s Lough Foyle expedition. The booklet also records substantial grants to Irish recipients: Donald McSweeney, Sir Mulmory McSweeney, Donnell McSweeney and Turlough O’Boyle each received two thousand acres in Doe and Fanad. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmacrenan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- County Donegal and the Plantation of Ulster (2010), pages12 and16–17 · Ulster-Scots Community Network, with assistance from the Ulster-Scots Agency; published by the Ulster-Scots Agency
- Lough Beagh in Glenveagh, Kilmacrenan barony illustration: based on a View south-west along Lough Beagh from above Glenveagh Gardens by Rod Grealish. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-10-21. How this page was prepared.