placenamesKilleenavarra
Cill Fhionnbharra
Lewis’s 1837 description links cultivation of the rocky parish with seaweed manure and records a house and land given for schooling.
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 Fhionnbharra · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killeenavarra · English · main form
Place & story
Cultivation and schooling in 1837
Samuel Lewis described Killeenavarra’s land as generally poor and rocky, but reported that seaweed used as manure helped it produce good crops. He placed Clough, the residence of Maurice Blake, within the parish. Clough also had a school with approximately 80 children. Blake had given a house and 15 acres of land for it, a provision that Lewis distinguished from the parish’s ecclesiastical revenues. His account records both a means of improving difficult farmland and a local contribution to education; it does not identify the crops grown or establish how long the school continued. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killeenavarra. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killunavarra, or Killeenavarra — 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.