placenamesKilbride
Cill Bhríde
The parish around Baldonnell and Kilcarbery preserves a church history distinct from other Dublin places called Kilbride.
The name
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 Bhríde · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbride · English · main form
Place & story
A tiny church with a western tower
Writing in 1906, F. Elrington Ball described Kilbride’s ruined church between Castle Bagot and the Naas road. Its small, irregularly rectangular oratory measured about nineteen feet by twelve. A western tower contained a narrow ground-floor cell, an arched porch and the recess of a vanished spiral stair. Ball interpreted the lost upper floor as a priest’s residence. He also suggested that the raised graveyard might occupy an earlier earthwork; that was an interpretation, rather than an established origin. [2]
Landholding and cathedral income
Ball traced medieval Kilbride to the Comyns’ manor of Balgriffin, despite the distance between the two places. Their obligation was to provide a foot sergeant or pay five shillings. The church belonged to the endowment of the dean of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. In the 1547 dissolution record cited by Ball, it was already described as an old chapel, valued with a neighbouring cottage at twelve pence annually. These records establish institutional connections without supplying a founding date. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbride. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbride, A History of the County Dublin, volume4,1906 · Francis Elrington Ball
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.