placenamesKillabban
Cill Abáin
Lewis’s 1837 account combines a large network of schools with quarrying and collieries.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Abáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killabban · English · main form
Place & story
School subscriptions across the parish
Samuel Lewis recorded about 400 children in four public schools in Killabban parish, with the rector contributing to three of them. Sixteen private schools taught about 640 children, and six Sunday schools were separately listed. The figures cover the wider parish that included Ballylinan, Ballickmoyler and Arles. [2]
Quarries and collieries
Limestone, flagstone and sandstone were quarried in the parish, according to Lewis. He identified extensive collieries at Newtown and additional workings at several other places. These industries operated alongside a landscape he described as predominantly pasture. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Ballyadams
- Barony
- Slievemargy
- Coordinates
- 52.88573, -7.04499
- Logainm ID
- 1440 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killabban. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killeban or Killabin: 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.