placenamesKillowen
Cill Eoghain
Lewis recorded the reuse of one building and the mixed funding of its replacement.
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 Eoghain · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killowen · English · main form
Place & story
Schoolroom and replacement church
Samuel Lewis recorded that Killowen’s old parish church was converted into a schoolhouse in 1830. His 1837 account describes a new church without a tower or spire, costing one thousand pounds. Its funding combined three hundred pounds from the Clothworkers’ Company, one hundred from Bishop Knox and fifty from the Irish Society with a Board of First Fruits gift of one hundred and seventy pounds and a loan of three hundred and eighty. These contributions distinguish donated money from borrowing. The parish lay west of the Bann, with Captain Street continuing the route across from Coleraine’s Bridge Street. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killowen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killowen, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2009-01-27. How this page was prepared.