placenamesKilleenagarriff
Cill Mhic Con Ghairbh
Lewis distinguished a schoolhouse built by a local patron from the annual contribution that helped maintain it.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhic Con Ghairbh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killeenagarriff · English · main form
Place & story
Building a school and supporting it
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 entry for Kilnegarruff, now Killeenagarriff, records three schools teaching about 200 children across the historical parish. General Bourke had built one schoolhouse and contributed £14 annually to that school. Lewis separately identifies Major-General Sir R. Bourke as the resident of Thornfield. The annual payment was continuing support, not the schoolhouse’s construction cost, and the total enrolment belongs to all three schools. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Coordinates
- 52.66282, -8.47623
- Mapped area
- 18.03 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1565 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killeenagarriff. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilnegarruff or Kilnegariff: 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.