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 an Mhuilinn· Irish · main form · validated name
Killavullen· English · main form
Killawillin· English · main form · historical name
Place & story
The three-arched crossing
Killavullen's bridge carries the road over the Blackwater on three round arches. The architectural inventory dates it approximately to 1780. Rubble limestone walls contrast with the carefully cut limestone stones around the arches, while V-shaped cutwaters face into the river. Later concrete reinforcement records the bridge's continuing practical use. The crossing is a substantial surviving piece of eighteenth-century engineering at the village's riverfront.[2]
People & connections
Nano Nagle's Ballygriffin connection
Honora, known as Nano, Nagle was born at Ballygriffin in 1718. She founded the Presentation Sisters and established schools for poor children in Cork city. The Presentation Sisters' own history also records her almshouse for poor women. Her birthplace near Killavullen now serves as a heritage and retreat centre on 32 acres of former Nagle family land, with heritage and icon rooms and spaces for school retreats. It connects her international religious legacy with the Blackwater landscape where her life began.[3][4]
St Nicholas's church and its font
St Nicholas's Church was blessed on 15 August 1839, during Philip Greene's time as parish priest, on land donated by the Hennessy family of Ballymacmoy. Watsons of Youghal supplied stained glass in the early twentieth century. Renovation in 1994 retained the ornate ceiling and sanctuary's Corinthian columns. A medieval baptismal font came from Monanimy; the parish identifies it as the font used at Nano Nagle's baptism. Newer white-beech carvings depict biblical subjects and local heritage.[5]
People & connections
Tim Nagle remembered at home
A monument in the church grounds commemorates Timothy Nagle, born in Killavullen in 1892. Apprenticed to his uncle's blacksmith's forge on Cork's Watercourse Road, he played for St Mary's club and won an All-Ireland senior hurling medal with Cork in 1919. He died in 1925. The memorial was unveiled in 1928, with Cork's lord mayor among those attending. Christy Roche's research for Killavullen GAA traces the career behind this village monument to a player whose working and sporting lives took him to the city.[6]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Killavullen — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Killavullen, Cork — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Killavullen, Cork — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Killavullen, Cork — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
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Killavullen, Cork
Published census settlement populations
267people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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