placenamesKilleely
Cill Liaile
The Ordnance Survey notes record a school building and its teachers’ salaries.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Liaile · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killeely · English · main form
Place & story
A school in Prior’s Land North
Saint Munchin’s school was established by subscription in 1834, according to the Ordnance Survey notes for the Limerick portion of Killeely. It stood in Prior’s Land North, east of the old Limerick–Ennis road. The two-storey building cost about six hundred pounds and accommodated separate boys’ and girls’ schools. Subscriptions also provided the teachers’ salaries: fifty pounds a year for the master and twenty pounds for the mistress. The notes thus distinguish the building fund from continuing support for teaching. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Limerick City
- Barony
- North Liberties
- Coordinates
- 52.67332, -8.67138
- Mapped area
- 7.06 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1643 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killeely. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ordnance Survey parish name-book material: Killeely, no.83, entry18, printed page1079 · Ordnance Survey; Limerick Local Studies
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.