placenamesShillelogher
Síol Fhaolchair
A local parish account records the Desart family’s support for tenants and education.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Síol Fhaolchair · Irish · main form · validated name
- Shillelogher · English · main form
Place & story
A tenant hospital and a shared school grant
In his 1837 description of Killaloe parish near Callan, Samuel Lewis recorded a fever hospital supported by the Earl of Desart for his tenants. A public school with about 160 pupils received £15 annually from the Countess of Desart and the Rev. Mr Morris. A private school taught about 140 more children. These are institutions of the wider Killaloe parish, which crosses barony boundaries, rather than totals for Shillelogher alone. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Shillelogher. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killaloe, Kilkenny: 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.