Killeshin
Cill Uisean | |
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Village | |
  Killeshin Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 52°50′58″N 6°59′42″W / 52.8494°N 6.995°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Laois |
| Time zone | UTC+0 |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 |
Killeshin (Irish: Cill Uisean, meaning 'church of [the glen of] Uise')[1] is a village in County Laois, Ireland on the R430 regional road. Killeshin is a small rural community situated five kilometres west of Carlow town and overlooks the picturesque Barrow Valley. The church at the foot of Slievemargy, the hill above Killeshin, is the site of an early Christian monastery.[2] The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.[1]
- ^ a b "Cill Uisean/Killeshin". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ James Henthorn Todd (1869). Leabhar Imuinn: The Book of Hymns of the Ancient Church of Ireland. Irish archaeological and Celtic society. p. 291.