placenamesKilcolman
Cill Cholmáin
Lewis recorded support for individual schools alongside attendance across the wider parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Cholmáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilcolman · English · main form
Place & story
Gifts to two of the public schools
Kilcolman parish’s three public schools taught about two hundred children in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Mrs Browne supported one school, while the Rev. M. Havern contributed £4 4s annually to another. Nine private schools together taught about 350 children. These figures belong to the parish around Claremorris, rather than the town alone, and show individual patronage supporting part of a wider network of teaching. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Coordinates
- 53.76221, -8.97038
- Mapped area
- 96.07 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1778 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcolman. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcoleman, Clanmorris, Mayo: 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.