placenamesKiltullagh
Cill Tulach
The history of Kiltullagh National School traces more than a century of changes in the village’s educational buildings.
The name
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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 Tulach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kiltullagh · English · main form
Place & story
A modest beginning
Kiltullagh National School began in October 1856 in a single room with a thatched roof and an earthen floor. Its own history describes a mixed school with four small windows and basic desks and benches. Teaching continued there, interrupted by periods of closure, until a replacement building opened in 1900. [2]
New buildings and new uses
A two-classroom school replaced the 1900 building in 1958; the older building became the parish hall. The school expanded again in 2005, 2011 and 2015. A further classroom came into use in September 2021 after a delay during the Covid-19 pandemic. These successive additions record the changing scale of a local institution founded in very modest premises. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Kilconnell
- Barony
- Athenry
- Coordinates
- 53.27361, -8.64463 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1411735 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kiltullagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- History of Kiltullagh National School · Kiltullagh National School
- The roofless shell of Kiltullagh House, as photographed in 2014 illustration: based on a Kiltullagh House, Kiltullagh, Galway (1) by Mike Searle. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-07-06. How this page was prepared.