Cill Chuáin

Kilquane derives from the Irish Cill Chuáin, meaning 'church of Cuán,' named after Saint Cúan, an Irish abbot who founded numerous churches and monasteries throughout Ireland and lived to nearly 100 years of age, dying in 752 AD. The ecclesiastical parish of Kilquane was centred on the church site that is now the cemetery, which occupied the area between Glenmore Bridge and Watergrasshill villa...