placenamesKilcrohane
Cill Chrócháin
Lewis named several contributors supporting education in the Kerry parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chrócháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilcrohane · English · main form
Place & story
General Daniel Count O’Connell’s bequest
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Kilcrohane account records a free school at Derrynane supported by a £10 annual bequest from the late General Daniel Count O’Connell. The general had also paid for its schoolhouse. Annual donations came from Mr. O’Connell and Mr. Hartop. Lewis separately lists schools at Sneem and gives about 250 pupils across the schools collectively; that figure should not be assigned to Derrynane alone. The titled general and the separately listed Mr. O’Connell remain distinct contributors in the account. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Dunkerron South
- Coordinates
- 51.81662, -9.98761 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 258.72 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1083 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcrohane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcrohane (Kerry): 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.