placenamesKilcolman
Cill Cholmáin
Lewis recorded education and an improvised place of worship in the parish near Birr.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Cholmáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilcolman · English · main form
Place & story
A named school and its supporter
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilcolman parish in what is now County Offaly, written as Kilcoleman, records a school at Mountmask attended by about twenty-five children and supported by Mr. Synge. Five private schools in the parish taught about 160 children altogether. The account does not identify Synge more fully or assign separate attendance figures to those five schools. [2]
A licensed private house
Sunday worship took place in a private house licensed for that purpose. Lewis distinguished the parish’s rectory, belonging to the ecclesiastical union of Parsonstown, from its vicarage, belonging to the union of Ettagh. These arrangements concern the historical parish near Birr, rather than the several other Irish places called Kilcolman. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Offaly
- Barony
- Ballybritt
- Barony
- Clonlisk
- Coordinates
- 53.03891, -7.88697
- Mapped area
- 30.85 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2026 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcolman. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcoleman, King’s County, 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.