placenamesKilberry
Cill Bhearaigh
Lewis distinguished practical and financial support for a school in 1837.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Bhearaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilberry · English · main form
Place & story
Two forms of support
Colonel Everard provided a house and garden without rent for a school in Kilberry parish, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. C. Smyth contributed ten pounds annually to the same establishment, which taught about one hundred children. A separate private school taught about fifty. Lewis also recorded a corn mill on the Yellow River, placing education alongside a working riverside industry. His entry does not name either schoolmaster or identify the mill’s operator. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Morgallion
- Coordinates
- 53.71570, -6.69366
- Mapped area
- 19.55 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1953 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilberry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilberry, Morgallion, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-10-16. How this page was prepared.