sentences:  What is likelier, though, is that even Kirrweiler is one of the later settlements with names ending in "—weiler" that were founded on into the 12th century.One attempt to explain the village's name, with its prefix "Kirr—", is that it came from "kirichvilare", meaning a hamlet at a church ("Kirche" in German).It is indeed quite likely that a church once stood in Kirrweiler.