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
Coill an Iarainn· Irish · main form · validated name
Killinierin· English · main form
Kilanerin· English · main form · local name
Place & story
Saint Peter and Saint Paul’s church
Pugin and Ashlin designed the Catholic church in 1863, and building began in 1865. The national architectural inventory records its dedication in 1871 and completion in 1896. Blue-green calp stone contrasts with granite dressings, while a polygonal apse and a tower with an octagonal spire define the exterior. Inside, polished Midleton marble pillars support the nave arcades. The exposed timber roof and memorial windows form further parts of its surviving nineteenth-century character.[2]
Folklore & tradition
The cap above the spire
A local church history by parish priest Patrick C. O’Brien records a story about the completion of the spire. A fourteen-year-old boy called Har Loughlin was said to have climbed the scaffolding and placed his cap on a pole above it, claiming a parish height record. Dean O’Neill supposedly watched from the parochial house and waited until the boy was safely down before intervening. The account presents the episode as local tradition.[3]
Two woods beside the village road
Kilanerin Wood and Curragh Wood stand on opposite sides of a road approaching the village. Coillte maintains looped walking routes through both: the Kilanerin route is three kilometres and the Curragh route three and a half kilometres. The woods contain native trees and habitat for birds and butterflies. Together they give the village a pair of accessible wooded landscapes, with separate entrances and parking areas along the approach.[4]
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.
View population figures
Killinierin — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Killinierin, Wexford
Published census settlement populations
244people · 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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