placenamesKillinan
Cill Fhíonáin
A grave commemorates the landowner whose will supported schooling.
Recorded locationKillinan53.14567° N · 8.68040° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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 Fhíonáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killinan · English · main form
Place & story
A legacy for tenants’ children
Parsons Persse of Castleboy, commemorated by a box-tomb in Killinane graveyard, died in 1812. Gerry Kearney’s archive study records that his will endowed a school at Illerton for his tenants’ children. After that school closed, the funds benefited four remaining schools within the Castleboy estate. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killinan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tracking Parochial Families in Killinane and Kilconickny: Archive of the Month, June 2016 · Gerry Kearney; Representative Church Body Library, Church of Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.