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Kiltiernan

Cill Tiarnáin

St Tiernan’s nineteenth-century church and Our Lady of the Wayside school mark two stages in Kiltiernan’s institutional history.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of Our Lady of the Wayside Church at Kiltiernan, as photographed in 2014.
Illustration, Our Lady of the Wayside Church at Kiltiernan, as photographed in 2014
Recorded locationKiltiernan53.23461° N · 6.18762° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie

The name

cillchurch

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 Tiarnáin · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Kiltiernan · English · main form
  • Kilternan · English · main form · local name

Place & story

St Tiernan’s on the Enniskerry Road

St Tiernan’s Church was built in 1824–26 and consecrated in 1826. Its granite walls, narrow pointed windows and octagonal spire give it a distinctive outline. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage attributes the design to John Semple. Interior alterations followed in 1908, including the Moore memorial east window by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. The inventory records a further restoration in 2001. [2]

A school opening in 1965

Our Lady of the Wayside National School opened on 1 July 1965 with 52 pupils and two teachers, Frank and Maura Kelliher. Its original facilities included three classrooms and a water tower. Enrolment doubled over the next three years, prompting an extension with additional classroom space, an office, kitchen and central-heating boiler room. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Population centre
County
Dublin
Barony
Rathdown
Civil parish
Kiltiernan
Coordinates
53.23461, -6.18762 (approximate)
Logainm ID
1412143 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Kiltiernan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Saint Tiernan’s Church, Kiltiernan: NIAH60260011 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Our School’s History · Our Lady of the Wayside National School, Kilternan
  4. Our Lady of the Wayside Church at Kiltiernan, as photographed in 2014 illustration: based on a Blue Church by Ian Paterson. 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 2023-02-22. How this page was prepared.