placenamesKilleen
A local historical study traces the townland through seventeenth-century records and the creation of Kildarton parish.
Recorded locationKilleen54.32449° N · 6.61170° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Killeen · English · main form
Place & story
From Ballekilline to Killeen
Gerry Oates records Killeen as Ballekilline on a plantation map of 1611. An inquisition of 1629 shows the name without that opening element. His study also places Killeen among the townlands taken from Lisnadill when Kildarton was formed in 1840. These references concern the Killeen south of Armagh city, along the Armagh–Newry road. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Fews Lower
- Civil parish
- Kildarton
- Coordinates
- 54.32449, -6.61170
- Mapped area
- 1.14 km²
- Logainm ID
- 56253 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killeen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Place-names in the Parish of Kildarton,HistoryArmagh15,December2019,pp4–6 · Gerry Oates; History Armagh
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.