placenamesKillygarvan
Cill Gharbháin
Lewis recorded separate funding arrangements for the church and the glebe-house.
The name
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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 Gharbháin · Irish · main form
- Killygarvan · English · main form
Place & story
Two rounds of building support
The Board of First Fruits supported Killygarvan’s church with a £300 gift and a £500 loan in 1813, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Five years later, it provided £450 as a gift and £50 as a loan towards the glebe-house. The balance of outright support and repayable money therefore differed substantially between the two projects. Lewis also recorded an administrative change: in 1835 the parish was separated from the Raphoe deanery and became a rectory and vicarage in the Crown’s patronage. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Coordinates
- 55.12291, -7.56172
- Mapped area
- 37.37 km²
- Logainm ID
- 800 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killygarvan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killygarvan: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-01-08. How this page was prepared.