placenamesKilbeg
An Chill Bheag
Lewis recorded a particular form of support for the school at Carlanstown within Kilbeg parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Chill Bheag · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilbeg · English · main form
Place & story
Support beyond the classroom
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilbeg records a school at Carlanstown teaching about 150 children. Sir H. Meredyth supported it and also gave its master a house and an acre of land. The provision joined accommodation and land to support for teaching, though Lewis does not say how the acre was used or give the gift’s date. His account places the Catholic chapel at Carlanstown too, locating both educational and religious provision within the village. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Kells Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.78690, -6.82364
- Mapped area
- 21.36 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1874 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbeg. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbeg or Kilmainhambeg: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-10-24. How this page was prepared.