Information about Kilcoony Carnes

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Kilcoony Carnes
Irish Form of Name:
Cairn
Translation:
heaps of stones
Civil Parish:
Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Cairn
Kilcoony Carnes Local
Comment:
see townland
Situation:
Situated in Kilcoony 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.