placenamesInishkenny
Inis Cionaoith
Lewis recorded two distinct religious buildings on the old Bandon road.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Inis Cionaoith · Irish · main form · validated name
- Inishkenny · English · main form
Place & story
The parish church in 1837
Samuel Lewis described Inishkenny’s church as a small building with a low tower and spire, built in 1809 with a £600 gift from the Board of First Fruits. The incumbent had also built and supported a parochial school, attended by about twenty children. [2]
Ballymacadane beyond the church
About a mile farther along the old road to Bandon, Lewis recorded the abbey ruins at Ballymacadane. Only side walls and gables remained in his account. The two descriptions distinguish the parish’s nineteenth-century church provision from a separate ruined religious building along the same road. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Barony
- Cork
- Coordinates
- 51.85431, -8.55551
- Mapped area
- 15.95 km²
- Logainm ID
- 591 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Inishkenny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Inniskenny or Inchkenny, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.