placenamesKilmeen
Cill Mhín
An occasional debt court outlasted the castle’s substantial remains.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilmeen · English · main form
Place & story
A manor court and surviving foundations
Samuel Lewis recorded an occasional court for the manor of Castle McAuliffe in his 1837 account of Kilmeen. It could recover debts up to forty shillings in the former currency. The castle itself, once the principal seat of the McAuliffe family, survived only as traceable foundations. His parish extended chiefly through Cork’s Duhallow district and partly into Kerry, distinguishing it from the Kilmeen parish near Clonakilty. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmeen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmeen, Duhallow, Cork: 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.