placenamesSalt South
An Léim Theas
Erasmus Smith’s trustees and the Earl of Mayo supported different aspects of the school.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Léim Theas · Irish · main form
- Salt South · English · main form
Place & story
Teaching and building upkeep
In Kill village, Samuel Lewis recorded a school of about thirty children under Erasmus Smith’s trustees in 1837. The Earl of Mayo maintained its decorated schoolhouse. Lewis distinguished this institution from two other public schools teaching about ninety children collectively, and from two private schools with about fifty pupils between them. His account thus separates the endowed classroom from the parish’s other places of teaching. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Salt South. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kill, Kildare: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.