placenamesKilflyn
Cill Fhlainn
Lewis describes the parish’s Established Church buildings and educational endowment.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Fhlainn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilflyn · English · main form
Place & story
An acre for the parochial schools
Kilflyn’s Established Church had been built in 1812 and had a square tower, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Lewis also recorded a glebe house and sixteen acres of glebe land. The parochial schools were endowed with one acre of that land and received help from the incumbent. Lewis separately recorded a private school attended by about thirty children. That attendance figure belongs to the private school, rather than the endowed schools, whose pupil numbers he did not specify. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilflyn. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilflyn, Limerick: 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.