placenamesKildress
Cill Dreas
Lewis recorded the replacement of an older church and separate assistance for later repairs.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Dreas · Irish · main form
- Kildress · English · main form
Place & story
Replacing the older building
Samuel Lewis dated Kildress’s parish church to 1818 and described its prominent square tower. The Board of First Fruits provided a £1,600 loan for its erection. The older church, about a mile east, had remained in use until 1818 after its restoration in 1698. [2]
Later repairs
By Lewis’s 1837 account, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had assisted repairs with a £151 grant. That later grant was distinct from the earlier construction loan. Lewis also recorded a £100 gift from the Board of First Fruits towards the glebe-house in 1791. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.65404, -6.89986 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 106.71 km²
- Logainm ID
- 63173 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kildress. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kildress: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-10-24. How this page was prepared.