placenamesKilmacahill
Cill Mhic Cathail
Lewis recorded a building fund separately from the school’s ongoing support.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhic Cathail · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilmacahill · English · main form
Place & story
Three contributions to one building
Kilmacahill’s parochial schoolhouse cost one hundred and fifty pounds, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account under the spelling Kilmocahill. Sixty pounds came from the lord-lieutenant’s school fund, thirty from the vicar and sixty from other individuals. The vicar also helped support the school, which taught about twenty children. Two private schools together taught about one hundred and thirty. These figures distinguish expenditure on the parochial building from attendance at the parish’s different schools; Lewis did not give the schoolhouse’s construction year. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmacahill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmocahill, 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.