placenamesKilbroney
Cill Bhruaine
Lewis recorded church, castle and mansion remains near Buttevant.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bhruaine · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbroney · English · main form
Place & story
Remains recorded in 1837
Kilbroney’s old church stood in ruins within its burial ground when Samuel Lewis described the Cork parish in 1837. At Ballinguile he recorded two further remains: a castle and an old mansion associated with the Fitzjames family. These buildings lay in a parish chiefly given over to pasture, on deep loam soil. Lewis also described its small area of bog as nearly exhausted. His account records the remains without dating their construction or explaining their abandonment. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Coordinates
- 52.25489, -8.69450
- Mapped area
- 7.6 km²
- Logainm ID
- 729 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbroney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbroney, Cork, 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.