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Townland

Kircubbin

Cill Ghobáin

The decorated frontage at 25–27 Main Street preserves a combination of domestic and commercial architecture.

Watercolour and fine ink front view of a Greek temple-style stone church with two fluted columns, three timber doors and a clock in its triangular pediment.
Illustration, the front of Holy Trinity Church, Kircubbin, County Down, as photographed in March 2008
Recorded locationKircubbin54.48818° N · 5.53412° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

cillchurch

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 Ghobáin · Irish · main form
  • Kircubbin · English · main form

Place & story

Different entrances beneath one roof

At 25–27 Main Street, a timber shopfront stands beside a recessed house entrance with an elliptical fanlight. Five windows span the upper floor, with the central window divided into three lights. The Historic Buildings Record distinguishes the shop at number 25 from the house entrance and upper floor belonging to number 27. [2]

An earlier building beneath the frontage?

The survey identifies a building on the site in the 1834 Ordnance Survey map. It considers the doors and windows characteristic of about 1850–60, possibly representing a remodelling of an earlier house. This leaves the age of the underlying structure uncertain. Smaller adjoining houses and a coach arch shown on early maps were later demolished. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Down
Civil parish
Inishargy
Coordinates
54.48818, -5.53412
Mapped area
2.32 km²
Logainm ID
65973 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1901 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

1926 census

This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Kircubbin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. House and shop, 25–27 Main Street: HB24/02/004, survey 6 October 1997 · Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. Holy Trinity Church front, Kircubbin, County Down illustration: based on a Holy Trinity Church, Kircubbin by Rossographer. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.