Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilmanaheen, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmanaheen
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KK024-104----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 421-2) gives the derivation of ‘Kilmanahan’ as, ‘the Church of St. Mainchin (pronounced Monniaheen)’. He goes on to say that while there is no tradition of a church in this townland, but that ‘Most probably it stood on Edward Dowling’s “Thullach,” a green hill crowned by the ruins of an ancient cyclopean building, standing east and west, 39 ft. [c. 12m] long by 24 ft. [7.3m] wide, the walls being now only about 2 ft. [c. 0.6m] high’. The precise location of this building within the townland is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 18 October 2021
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.