placenamesColeraine
Cúil Raithin
Lewis distinguishes the parish east of the Bann from neighbouring Killowen before describing the church’s successive additions.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cúil Raithin · Irish · main form
- Coleraine · English · main form
Place & story
A church altered over time
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account distinguishes Coleraine parish on the east side of the Bann from Killowen on the west. He records the Irish Society’s erection of Coleraine’s church in 1614, followed by a south aisle added at the corporation’s expense in 1684. A spire funded by the Society in 1719 survived only briefly, according to the account. Lewis also recorded a recent Ecclesiastical Commissioners grant of £282 19s. 6d. towards repairs. These are separate building and funding episodes, rather than the date of one complete structure. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Coleraine. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Coleraine Borough: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-04-17. How this page was prepared.