placenamesKilbrogan
Cill Brógáin
Lewis recorded services at Carhue while a chapel of ease was still planned.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Brógáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbrogan · English · main form
Place & story
Services before a new chapel
In 1837, Samuel Lewis recorded Kilbrogan’s church in Bandon and an additional place of worship in the schoolhouse at Carhue. A chapel of ease was about to be built there. His account therefore documents schoolroom services and a proposed building; it does not establish that the proposed chapel had opened. [2]
A parish network of schools
Lewis counted twelve public schools across Kilbrogan parish, teaching about nine hundred children altogether. The established-church living was united with Aglish and formed the prebend of Kilbrogan in Saint Finbarr’s Cathedral, Cork. His school total belongs to the wider parish, which included part of Bandon, rather than to the small settlement beside the old chapel. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Coordinates
- 51.76466, -8.78657
- Mapped area
- 30.66 km²
- Logainm ID
- 728 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbrogan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbrogan — 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.