placenamesKilcogy
Cill Chóige
Kilcogy’s documented history includes nineteenth-century landholding, an attempted collective purchase of turf-cutting ground and a school later incorporated into Mullahoran Central School.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chóige · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilcogy · English · main form
Place & story
The Rathborne connection
University of Galway’s Landed Estates research identifies William Rathborne of Scribblestown, Dublin, with an 831-acre holding at Kilcogy in the mid-nineteenth century. His Cavan property extended over three townlands in Drumlumman parish. The associated archival references include an early nineteenth-century map naming tenants on the lands of Kilcogy and Cloncovet. These records place the locality within a wider estate network, while preserving evidence for the smaller holdings within it. [2]
A disputed purchase of bog
In July 1906, Vincent Kennedy asked Parliament about the proposed sale of the Kilcogy Bog Estate. The official reply described agreements by trustees to buy forty-six acres of turbary for £640, benefiting both tenants and people who had already purchased their farms. The Estates Commissioners had excluded the bog because they considered it inadequate security for the requested advance. The reply promised further consideration, leaving the final outcome unresolved in that exchange. [3]
From Saint Mary’s to the central school
Saint Mary’s National School in Kilcogy operated from 1884 until 1974. It was one of three parish schools replaced when Mullahoran Central School opened on 3 September 1974, alongside the schools at Cloncovid and Loughduff. Maura Fitzsimons, who had taught at Kilcogy, joined the new teaching staff. The central school’s own history records this transfer, linking the village classroom with a larger institution serving the surrounding parish. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Clanmahon
- Civil parish
- Drumlumman
- Within
- Kilcogy
- Coordinates
- 53.83108, -7.42279 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412328 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcogy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rathbourne estate, record 834 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
- Sale of the Kilcogy Bog Estate,30 July 1906 · UK Parliament, Hansard
- History of the School · Mullahoran Central National School
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.