placenamesKilleedy
Cill Íde
Lewis recorded the destruction of the parish church and glebe house before his 1837 survey.
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 Íde · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killeedy · English · main form
Place & story
An unrepaired loss
Samuel Lewis reported that Killeedy’s Church of Ireland parish church and glebe house had been destroyed in 1822, attributing the attack to the Rockites. Neither had been rebuilt when his dictionary appeared in 1837. This is his account of the established church’s buildings; it concerns a different place of worship from the Catholic chapel he recorded at Ashford. [2]
School support across the parish
Two public schools, partly supported by the Earl of Devon, taught about sixty children collectively. Two private schools had about 210 pupils between them. Lewis’s figures describe the parish network and do not identify individual school buildings. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killeedy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killeedy: 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.