placenamesKilroan
Cill Ruáin
Lewis placed the old church at Courtafuteen on the western side of Kinsale harbour’s entrance.
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 Ruáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilroan · English · main form
Place & story
Stonework above the sea
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Kilroan records the old church’s ruins on a cliff at Courtafuteen. He describes walls of unhewn stone and narrow openings that he calls loophole windows. His parish account places Kilroan on the western side of the entrance to Kinsale harbour, with the sea on its eastern boundary. It gives no building date or explanation of the church’s abandonment. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilroan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilroan in 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.