placenamesKilskeer
Cill Scíre
The village’s educational history links a divided nineteenth-century school with its modern successor.
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 Scíre · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilskeer · English · main form
Place & story
The old schoolhouse
The Kilskyre Heritage Trail identifies the schoolhouse opposite the Catholic church as dating from 1836. Separate entrances served boys and girls, with girls taught upstairs and boys downstairs. The trail also records surviving entrance plaques and the remains of a cocoa house on the school site. [2]
A new school and changing numbers
Kilskyre National School dates its move into the present building to February 1971. Its own history records 115 pupils in 1989, falling to 39 in 2007 before numbers rose again. Two classes for autistic pupils opened in 2023. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Civil parish
- Kilskeer
- Coordinates
- 53.69339, -6.98560 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414667 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilskeer. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilskyre Heritage Trail, village interpretation panel · Boyne Valley heritage interpretation
- About Our School · Kilskyre National School
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.