Killinkere (Irish: Cillín Chéir, meaning 'Little Black Church') is a civil and ecclesiastical parish of County Cavan, Ireland.

[1] The Civil Parish of Killinkere was used for local taxation and was shown on the nineteenth century Ordnance Survey of Ireland maps.

For poor law purposes the Civil Parish was replaced by district electoral divisions in the mid-nineteenth century.

In 1790, a mud-thatched hut was erected in Killinkere, and in 1829 work on the present church began, which was completed by Christmas Day 1829.

[5] St Mary's Church, Clanaphilip, Termon, Killinkere, was shown as a ruin on a map in 1690.