placenamesKillanummery
Cill an Iomaire
Padraic Cullen’s local research distinguishes a fee-paying school from free teaching in a teacher’s own house.
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 an Iomaire · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killanummery · English · main form
Place & story
Schools recorded before the national system
Padraic Cullen’s study for Dromahair Heritage Group describes two Killenummery schools in an education inquiry published in 1826, reporting conditions in 1824. John Moore taught a fee-paying school and received £18 from pupils and £2 from the incumbent. Its slated building, valued at £50, had been obtained from the parish and the Kildare Place Society. Mary Rutledge taught a free school in her own house, valued at £10. Cullen’s account preserves both teachers’ names and distinguishes their sources of support and premises, before the national-school system began. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Leitrim
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Coordinates
- 54.20224, -8.27765
- Mapped area
- 57.79 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1482 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killanummery. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Hedge Schools: Killenummery and the 1826 Education Inquiry · Padraic Cullen; Dromahair Heritage Group
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.