placenamesKilbride
Cill Bhríde
Kilbride in Barragh parish became the home of the K’Eogh family during the nineteenth century.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bhríde · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbride · English · main form
Place & story
The estate changes hands
In his 1956 local history article, Father Hickey records George Rous K’Eogh buying the Kilbride estate in 1836 after the deaths of its Baillie owners. The family moved from Loughlinstown to Kilbride. The purchase included the house, demesne and townland, together with lands at Altamount, Sherwood Park, Boggan and Ballykeenan. Kilbride thus formed the centre of a landed property extending beyond the settlement itself. [2]
A military family
George’s son John Henry entered the army in 1841 and retired as a captain in 1850. Hickey records his appointment as lieutenant-colonel of the Carlow Rifles when the militia was enrolled in 1853, followed by promotion to colonel in 1871. His military career connects the Kilbride household with the county’s nineteenth-century militia. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbride. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- A Famous Election Campaign, Carloviana 5, 1956, page 28 · Rev. Fr. Hickey, Kiltegan
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.