placenamesKilleevan
Cill Laobháin
Lewis’s account distinguishes the Catholic district from the civil parish’s educational institutions.
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 Laobháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killeevan · English · main form
Place & story
Worship and teaching in 1837
Samuel Lewis dated Killeevan’s Catholic chapel at Killafuddy to 1817. It was one of two chapels in a wider religious district that also included Aghabog parish. Within Killeevan, six public schools together taught about 680 children in 1837; the incumbent chiefly supported the parochial school among them. Four private schools taught roughly 260 more. These school totals concern the parish, rather than Newbliss town alone. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killeevan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killeevan: 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.