placenamesKillermogh
Cill Dara Maí
Lewis recorded the Ladies Fitzpatrick’s help for local schooling alongside public funding for the parish church.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Dara Maí · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killermogh · English · main form
Place & story
Education and building grants in 1837
In his 1837 account of Killermogh, Samuel Lewis reported about one hundred children attending two public schools. Both received support from the Ladies Fitzpatrick, while the rector also assisted the parochial school. A Sunday school was mentioned separately, without an attendance figure. Lewis dated the parish church to 1796 and recorded a five-hundred-pound gift from the Board of First Fruits towards it. For the glebe-house, he distinguished a further gift of one hundred pounds from a loan of five hundred and fifty pounds in 1817. These were separate building projects and different forms of assistance, rather than a single construction fund. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Clarmallagh
- Coordinates
- 52.86780, -7.44668
- Mapped area
- 8.16 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1442 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killermogh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killermogh, 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.