placenamesKillead
Cill Éad
Church buildings preserve distinct strands of Killead’s history.
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 Éad · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killead · English · main form
Place & story
St Catherine’s
St Catherine’s retains a west doorway from the church of 1712. Gloine dates its nave to about 1820, noting that earlier walls and paving may survive. Joseph Welland designed the 1851 chancel with its three-light Gothic window. Richard Close added the lychgate in 1912. The church stands within the military camp at Aldergrove. [2]
The Presbyterian meeting house
The Presbyterian congregation dates its first Killead meeting house to about 1680 and the present building to around 1750. Its T-shaped layout and gallery placed worshippers around the central pulpit. In 1916 the congregation built a new school and teacher’s residence under the leadership of Dr Jack Irwin. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Massereene Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.64596, -6.21834 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 61327 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killead. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killead, Aldergrove, St Catherine, reference 015620, surveyed 19 September 2013 · Church of Ireland, Gloine architectural survey
- History of Killead Presbyterian Church · Killead Presbyterian Church
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.