placenamesKillorglin
Cill Orglan
Records beyond the town’s fair describe a working landscape and educational initiatives serving both town and coast.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Orglan · Irish · main form
- Killorglin · English · main form
Place & story
The parish beyond the town
Lewis's 1837 description places the Laune through the parish and records land chiefly under tillage, with bog and limestone also present. A small flour mill operated at Menus. His account distinguishes this wider farming territory from the smaller village beside its bridge. [2]
Cromane’s successive school buildings
Cromane school's own history records a one-room school in 1868, followed by a stone-built national school in 1886 under Father Thomas Lawler. Local volunteers helped construct the replacement, serving children on Killorglin parish's western side. Boys and girls were taught separately until amalgamation in 1967. A new school at Lonhart replaced the older building in 1986, while its predecessor became a community centre, preserving a public role for the earlier premises. [3]
Carnegie funding and local initiative
The Intermediate School's institutional history dates its foundation to 1909, supported by a £2,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie secured through local MP Thomas O'Donnell. James Lillis and M. Daly were its early teachers. The school occupied the Carnegie building in Market Street, which also served other purposes during its lifetime, including use as a Civil War barracks. In 1988 the school moved to its present site and adopted the Intermediate School name. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Trughanacmy
- Barony
- Iveragh
- Barony
- Dunkerron North
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Coordinates
- 52.08461, -9.80338 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 130.28 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1098 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killorglin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killorglin, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis
- History of Scoil Réalt na Mara · Scoil Réalt na Mara, Cromane
- History of the Intermediate School Killorglin · Intermediate School Killorglin
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.