Killukin

Killukin or Killucan a parish in the barony of Boyle, County Roscommon, and Province of Connacht, on the road from Carrick-on-Shannon to Ballina containing, with part of the market and post town of Carrick (with which it is connected by a bridge over the River Shannon) it is bound on the north by the parish of Toomna on the west, partly by the parish of Eastersnow, and partly by that of Ardcarne on the south by the Parish of Killummond and on the east by the river Shannon.

Origin of name

The origin of the name, as in most place names in Ireland, is a description of some geographical feature, Lucia means rushy place, as can be seen, by the river which shelters the place. The place most likely began as a hermitage in times soon after St. Patrick. Local tradition claims that there was a monastic settlement in the field between Cordrehid Road and the graveyard road and a round tower located somewhere on the boundary within Stephen Murray's land.

Killukin, which derives from Cillibhicin in Irish and pronounced Kill-Evickeen. The saint seems to be the person whom the catalogue of the churches of the Diocese of Elphin calls Lunecharia and asserts to be venerated on 7 June in a certain chapel of the same diocese called Kill Lunechair which lies near the Episcopal See.