placenamesKilconierin
Cill Chon Iarainn
The parish’s Church of Ireland history connects it with a wider union and a church in neighbouring Lickerrig.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chon Iarainn · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilconierin · English · main form
Place & story
A union formed in 1735
Gerry Kearney’s archive study traces Kilconickny union to 1735, when the vicarages of Kilconiran, Kiltullagh and Lickerrig were united. Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account likewise places Kilconierin’s vicarage within Kilconickny union, using the spelling Kilconeran. These were ecclesiastical arrangements linking several parishes. [2] [3]
The church at Bookeen
The union’s church was completed at Bookeen in 1815 with assistance from a £600 Board of First Fruits grant. Kearney locates it in Lickerrig parish, rather than Kilconierin itself. The church closed in 1933. His study records the survival of a Kilconickny marriage register covering 1845–1907 in the RCB Library. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilconierin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tracking Parochial Families in Killinane and Kilconickny, County Galway, Archive of the Month, June 2016 · Gerry Kearney; Representative Church Body Library, Church of Ireland
- Kilconeran: 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.