placenamesKillinane
Cill Lonáin
Lewis records a schoolhouse, teacher’s rooms and an annual endowment in the Kerry parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Lonáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killinane · English · main form
Place & story
A school for tenants’ sons
Mrs Raymond paid for a schoolhouse at Deelis in 1833, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Killinane account. It included apartments for the master and served the male children of her tenants. She endowed it with £20 annually. Lewis separately mentioned a coastguard-supported school and a private school, with about forty children between those two institutions. [2]
Sand carried inland by boat
The river Lewis called the Fahrta carried boats inland from Valentia Harbour. They transported seaweed and sand for agricultural use, with the sand brought from the island he named Begnis. This waterborne traffic supplied materials used to manure the parish’s farmland. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killinane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killinane, 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.