placenamesKilleenadeema
Cillín a Díoma
Lewis recorded the Earl of Clancarty contributing to public education in the parish’s nineteenth-century account.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cillín a Díoma · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killeenadeema · English · main form
Place & story
Five pounds for each school
Samuel Lewis’s entry for Killeenadeema records the Earl of Clancarty contributing £5 annually to each of three public schools. Together they taught about 210 children. Lewis distinguished them from two private schools with approximately 120 pupils. The contribution was recurring support for each public institution, rather than a one-off building grant or a single £5 payment shared between all three. His account does not name the schoolmasters or give individual school enrolments. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killeenadeema. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killeenadeema: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.