placenamesKilladerry
Cill Rátha Dairthí
Land, construction funding and patronage came from different sources.
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 Rátha Dairthí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killaderry · English · main form
Place & story
Providing a schoolhouse
At Philipstown, now Daingean, Lewis recorded a school of about ninety children under the trustees of Erasmus Smith’s charity. The trustees erected its schoolhouse at a cost of £250 on land given by the Countess Fitzwilliam, while Lord Ponsonby was its patron. His 1837 Killaderry entry separately lists two other public schools, a private school and a Sunday school. The account distinguishes the donor of the site from those responsible for the schoolhouse and its patronage. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Offaly
- Barony
- Philipstown Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.30982, -7.28179
- Mapped area
- 22.48 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2029 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killaderry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killaderry, 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.