placenamesKilcock
Cill Choca
Lewis recorded different school arrangements within the historical Kildare parish.
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 Choca · Irish · main form
- Kilcock · English · main form
Place & story
Teaching and support
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilcock parish in County Kildare records about 220 children attending two public schools. One received a donation from Mr. Gannon, whose full name and contribution amount are not specified in that school notice. Two private schools taught about forty children between them. Lewis listed a dispensary as another local institution. [2]
Parish and ecclesiastical district
The Catholic district covered Kilcock, Cloncurry, Hortland and Clonshamboe. Its chapels were in Kilcock town and at Newtown, which Lewis explicitly placed in Hortland parish. The second chapel therefore served the larger district without being located in Kilcock civil parish itself. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Ikeathy and Oughterany
- Coordinates
- 53.38737, -6.67608
- Mapped area
- 16.42 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1184 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcock. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcock, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-22. How this page was prepared.