Information about Kilcummin Parish

Information from O'Donovan's Field Name Books

Standard Name:
Kilcummin Parish
Irish Form of Name:
Cill Chuimín
Translation:
St. Cuimin’s Church
Civil Parish:
Kilcummin
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Other Forms of the Name with authority source (if provided) in italics:
Kilcomine Barony Cess Book
Killcommon Beauforts Map of Ireland
Kilcummin Parish Boundary Surveyor
Killcommon Carlisle’s Topl. Dictionary
Killcomen Down Survey 1655
Kilcomene Printed Townland List

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.
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