placenamesKilmactranny
Cill Mhic Treana
The church at Carrickard retains a distinctive arrangement of tower, nave and graveyard.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhic Treana · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilmactranny · English · main form
Place & story
A church lit from the south
St Thomas’s Church has a square western tower and an eastern chancel. The national architectural inventory notes an unusual feature: the nave has no north-facing windows, with larger openings concentrated on its south side. Stone pinnacles and stepped battlements crown the tower. A later vestry adjoins it. The surrounding graveyard, stone boundary walls and iron entrance gates preserve the setting of this Church of Ireland building. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Sligo
- Barony
- Tirerrill
- Civil parish
- Kilmactranny
- Coordinates
- 54.05682, -8.25962 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1411763 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmactranny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Thomas’s Church (Kilmactranny), Carrickard, record 32404101 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Saint Thomas’s Church and graveyard at Kilmactranny, as photographed in 2008 illustration: based on a Kilmactranny Church by Oliver Dixon. 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 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.