placenamesWhitehall
The chapel at Milltown preserves nineteenth-century features alongside a stone font whose earlier history remains uncertain.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Whitehall · English · main form
Place & story
A chapel at the road junction
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates Whitehall’s Church of Saint John the Baptist to around 1830, with renovation around 1970. It records the earlier name Saint Mary’s. The chapel stands at a rural road junction south of Castlepollard, with a separate cast-iron belfry beside it. Pointed windows, stained glass and Celtic cross finials shape its exterior; inside, a monument commemorates the Reverend Michael Lynch, who died in 1845. [2]
A cut-stone font is incorporated into the boundary wall on the north side. The inventory suggests that it may have come from an earlier church, possibly the medieval church at Faughalstown. That connection is a possibility recorded by the survey, rather than an established provenance for the stone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Fore
- Civil parish
- Faughalstown
- Within
- Faughalstown
- Within
- Milltown
- Coordinates
- 53.64549, -7.30033
- Logainm ID
- 108061 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Whitehall. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Catholic Church of Saint John the Baptist, Milltown, Whitehall: registration 15400711 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- The church and graveyard at Whitehall, Milltown, County Westmeath, as photographed in January 2023 illustration: based on a Church and Graveyard by kevin higgins. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-06-02. How this page was prepared.