placenamesKilcommon
Cill Chomáin
A relief committee’s model school had few pupils when Lewis described it in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chomáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilcommon · English · main form
Place & story
A model school with a small intake
Samuel Lewis recorded a model agricultural school near Hollymount in Kilcommon parish, established by the Mansion-House Relief Committee of 1822. Its building and stock cost £3,000. Mr Lindsey provided an acre for the school, but Lewis reported very few pupils in 1837. The substantial initial expenditure and small reported intake belong to the same account of this attempt at agricultural education. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcommon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcommon, Kilmaine: 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.