placenamesKilbride
Cill Bhríde
The Dunboyne parish history identifies Kilbride’s church separately from its principal parish church.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bhríde · Irish · main form
- Kilbride · English · main form
Place & story
A chapel of ease in Kilbride
Kilbride’s Catholic church is dedicated to Saint Brigid and the Sacred Heart, and serves as a chapel of ease within Dunboyne parish. The parish’s own history dates its opening to 1931. Its principal church, dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, stands in Dunboyne; the account therefore concerns two separate buildings. [2]
The earlier parish account
Samuel Lewis found the older parish church in ruins in 1837, while recording a small Catholic chapel and a private school teaching about thirty children. His entry concerns Kilbride in Dunboyne barony, rather than the other Meath parish called Kilbride or Castlecorr. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbride. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Our History: Parish of Dunboyne and Kilbride · Parish of Dunboyne and Kilbride
- Kilbride, Dunboyne: 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.