placenamesKilmore
An Chill Mhór
Lewis’s account connects education and assistance to the building of Moynalvey’s chapel.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Chill Mhór · Irish · main form
- Kilmore · English · main form
Place & story
Schooling and practical assistance
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Kilmore parish in County Meath names Dr. Tighe Gregory as the rector supporting and supervising a school open to all denominations. It had about thirty children; a separate private school taught around sixty. Lewis also credited Gregory with founding a dispensary, a Dorcas institution, a repository and a poor shop. Dwellings for destitute widows and orphans were still an intention, rather than completed buildings in this account. [2]
Subscriptions for Moynalvey’s chapel
The parish’s Catholic chapel stood in Moynalvey village. Lewis dated its construction to 1834 and recorded that members of the Established Church contributed the greater part of its subscription funding. Miss Gregory presented an exterior bust of Christ, described as after Michelangelo. Lewis did not expand her name or identify her relationship to the rector. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Deece Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.46645, -6.65726
- Mapped area
- 27.12 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1886 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmore (Meath), A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-09. How this page was prepared.