Information about Kilteernan

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Kilteernan
Irish Form of Name:
Cill Tighearnáin
Translation:
St. Tiernan’s Church
Civil Parish:
Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Cill Tighearnáin
Kilteernan
Kiltiernan
Kilternan Church (in ruins) Popular name
Situation:
In the above named townland [Kiltiarnan E. townland].

Information From Joyce's Place Names

Translation according to P. W. Joyce:
Kill alone is the name of more than a score of places in various counties: in most cases it stands for cill, a church: but in some it is for coill, a wood.