Kilfinny

Kilfinny (Irish: Cill na Fíonaí, meaning 'church of the wood')[1] is a civil parish and townland in County Limerick, Ireland.

[3] Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of fulacht fiadh, holy well and ringfort sites in the townlands of Commons, Ballynakill and Kilfinny.

[5] The coordination of the castle's defence, during the siege, is historically attributed to Elizabeth Dowdall.

[8] St Kieran's church is in the Roman Catholic parish of Croagh-Kilfinny in the Diocese of Limerick.

[9] The current church is built on the site of an earlier late 18th-century chapel.

Kilfinny Castle, now in ruins, was besieged during the Irish Rebellion of 1641