placenamesKillea
Cill Fhéich
Two houses near Carrigans document private building and changing uses within the Donegal civil parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Fhéich · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killea · English · main form
Place & story
White House and Philadelphia
White House was built in 1875 for William J. Hanna after a period living in Philadelphia. The architectural inventory identifies William McElwee of Derry as its architect and Alex McElwee as the builder. The house’s projecting windows, entrance balcony and decorative ironwork give it an irregular Victorian outline. It replaced, and may incorporate part of, an earlier house shown on the first Ordnance Survey map. Its construction links a specific return from America with new domestic building beside the Foyle. [2]
A possible lodge with later occupations
The Lodge at Dunmore dates to about 1830. Its position beside a former path from Dunmore House suggests an estate connection, possibly as a gate lodge, although that original purpose is not certain. The inventory records local information that it served as a school around 1910 and a gardener’s home around 1930. Decorative diamond patterns above its windows and doors, projecting cornices and a cast-iron overlight distinguish this small single-storey building from the larger house it once accompanied. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Coordinates
- 54.96834, -7.41105
- Mapped area
- 5.97 km²
- Logainm ID
- 797 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killea. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- White House, Whitehouse, record40828011 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- The Lodge, Dunmore, record40828010 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-04-14. How this page was prepared.