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Townland

Kilbroney

Cill Bhrónaí

A recorded field visit describes contrasting carved stones in the old graveyard.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of a tall plain weathered stone cross on its broad plinth in a hillside graveyard with misty fields beyond.
Illustration, the high cross in Kilbroney old graveyard, County Down, as photographed in September 2013
Recorded locationKilbroney54.12596° N · 6.17071° 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 Bhrónaí · Irish · main form
  • Kilbroney · English · main form

Place & story

Decoration on one face

During a visit on 20 May 2009, Antonio D’Imperio recorded Kilbroney’s high cross as 2.35 metres tall, with arms spanning 92 centimetres. He described geometric ornament on its western face and a plain eastern face. His account places the church ruins about ten metres north of the cross, with a smaller cross roughly fifteen metres to the west. The smaller stone was about a metre high and leaned southward. These observations describe the stones’ form and arrangement without establishing their dates. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Down
Civil parish
Kilbroney
Coordinates
54.12596, -6.17071
Mapped area
2.43 km²
Logainm ID
66697 ↗

People & family history

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

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 — Kilbroney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Kilbroney high cross: field visit20May2009 · Antonio D’Imperio
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. The high cross in Kilbroney old graveyard, County Down illustration: based on a 9th Century Cross in Kilbroney Cemetery, Rostrevor by Gareth James. 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.