placenamesKnockavilly
Cnoc an Bhile
Lewis recorded local provision for policing and worship in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cnoc an Bhile · Irish · main form · validated name
- Knockavilly · English · main form
Place & story
A barrack at Upton
Samuel Lewis identified Upton as the residence of the Rev. Somers H. Payne, who had built a barrack for a party of constabulary police within his demesne. The building appears in Lewis’s 1837 description of Knockavilly alongside the parish’s other country residences. [2]
Worship before a new church
Divine service was then held in a room licensed by the bishop while a new church awaited erection. Justin McCarthy had given a site for it. Lewis’s wording records the provision of land and an interim place of worship, rather than a completed church building. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Coordinates
- 51.81375, -8.67707
- Mapped area
- 25.17 km²
- Logainm ID
- 641 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Knockavilly. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Knockavilly or Knockaville: 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.