placenamesKillashee
Cill Uasaille
Building records trace changes at Killashee House, while local research records a devotional custom at the older church site.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Uasaille · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killashee · English · main form
Place & story
Building and rebuilding the mansion
Killashee’s mansion was built for Richard Moore in 1859–62 to designs by Lanyon and Lynn, with Cockburn and Son as builders. Thomas Drew served as clerk of works. The architectural archive records Drew’s later restoration after a fire, undertaken in 1884–86 for Richard St Leger Moore. Thomas Joseph Cullen designed extensive alterations for the new convent owners in 1927–30. These were successive building campaigns, rather than a single unchanged Victorian house. [2]
Saint Patrick’s Day at the well
In his 2015 study of Killashee, Brian Mc Cabe recorded that a procession had visited the well dedicated locally to Saint Patrick on 17 March until recent years. He described its dry-stone construction and stepped approach near the old church. This is a dated account of a local devotional practice, not evidence that the custom continues today or that the well’s association with Patrick establishes a fifth-century origin. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Naas South
- Barony
- Naas North
- Coordinates
- 53.17592, -6.67974
- Mapped area
- 16.29 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1191 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killashee. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killashee, work9653: building and alteration records · Dictionary of Irish Architects, Irish Architectural Archive
- The Earth Moved at Killashee,28February2015 · Brian Mc Cabe, Kill History Group
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-29. How this page was prepared.