placenamesKiltoghert
Cill Tachúrc
Carrick-on-Shannon’s county gaol combined confinement with basic instruction.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Tachúrc · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kiltoghert · English · main form
Place & story
Lessons from the master and matron
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Carrick-on-Shannon records a polygonal county gaol with ten wards, separate sleeping cells and a treadmill. Its master and matron taught prisoners to read and write. Carrick, lying chiefly in Kiltoghert but extending across the Shannon into Roscommon, served as Leitrim’s county town and hosted the assizes. The account records instruction within the prison, without measuring how many prisoners attended or what they learned. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kiltoghert. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Carrick-on-Shannon: 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.