placenamesKilbride
Cill Bhríde
The Antrim parish’s nineteenth-century records connect worship in a schoolhouse with a later church-building project.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Cill Bhríde · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilbride · English · main form
Place & story
Sunday worship without a church
In 1837 Lewis reported that Kilbride had no church and that Sunday services took place in a schoolhouse. The parish then belonged to the Donegore union. Four private schools taught about 240 children, and three Sunday schools provided further instruction, making school buildings an important part of its religious and educational life. [2]
A later parish church project
The Irish Architectural Archive records a new Saint Brigida’s church for Kilbride parish at Doagh in 1866–1868. Contract drawings dated 26 November 1866 name Thomas Dixon and survive in the Representative Church Body Library. This later ecclesiastical project followed the period of schoolhouse worship described by Lewis. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Antrim Upper
- Coordinates
- 0.00000, 0.00000
- Mapped area
- 22.74 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61271 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbride. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbride, Antrim — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Doagh, Church of Saint Brigida, Kilbride parish, work48001 · Irish Architectural Archive, Dictionary of Irish Architects
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.