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 Elphin containing part of the market and post town of Carrick (with which it is connected by a bridge over the River Shannon). It is bounded: 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.

Name

The origin of the name, as in most place names in Ireland, is a description of some geographical feature, Lucia means rushy place, likely a reference to the river which shelters the place. The place possibly 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.

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.

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