placenamesKilbradran
Cill Bhradaráin
The parish name book distinguishes charges for spelling, arithmetic and grammar.
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 Bhradaráin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbradran · English · main form
Place & story
Teaching paid for by pupils
The Ordnance Survey name book recorded a school in Kilbradran townland with thirty-eight boys and twenty-two girls, all described as Roman Catholics. Pupils paid the teacher. The listed quarterly fees rose with the subject: one shilling for spelling, one shilling and sixpence for reading and writing, two shillings for arithmetic, and five shillings for grammar. These figures concern this particular townland school, rather than all education in the parish. They preserve the different prices attached to subjects in the survey’s account. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Barony
- Shanid
- Coordinates
- 52.54246, -9.03340
- Mapped area
- 11.82 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1553 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbradran. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbradran parish, Ordnance Survey name book, printed p. 856 · Ordnance Survey; digitised copy hosted by Limerick Local Studies
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.