placenamesKilbonane
Cill Bheanáin
Lewis recorded a school built for tenants’ sons and two uses of the parish’s natural resources.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bheanáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilbonane · English · main form
Place & story
A schoolhouse with a teacher’s home
Samuel Lewis recorded a schoolhouse at Faha built by Mrs Raymond in 1834 for the male children of her tenants. Its £250 construction cost included accommodation for the master, whom she supported with £20 annually. The approximately eighty pupils mentioned in his 1837 account were counted across this school and the parish’s private schools, rather than at Faha alone. [2]
Limestone and water power
At Listry, limestone was quarried and burned for use on farmland. Lewis also recorded flour mills at Ballymalis powered by the river he called the Gheestan. These were distinct activities in the Kerry parish, whose southern boundary he described as the river Laune. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbonane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbonane, Kerry: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.