placenamesKinnitty
Cionn Eitigh
Lewis described distinct forms of educational support in the Offaly parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cionn Eitigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kinnitty · English · main form
- Kinnity · English · main form · local name
Place & story
Teaching and clothing
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kinnitty parish, in what is now County Offaly, records educational patronage by the Bernard family. Colonel Bernard supported one public school, while Lady Catherine Bernard supported an infants’ and sewing school. A separate Sunday school had a clothing fund sustained by the rector and Lady Bernard. The account distinguishes support for teaching from the additional fund for clothing; it does not identify individual children who received assistance. [2]
Assistance to parish buildings
The Board of First Fruits contributed a £100 gift and a £600 loan towards the glebe house in 1810. A £500 loan supported rebuilding the church on a larger scale in 1813, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners later granted £176 for repairs. These were separate contributions to the house, rebuilding and later maintenance, rather than one complete construction bill. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Offaly
- Barony
- Ballybritt
- Coordinates
- 53.07601, -7.71375
- Mapped area
- 56.85 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2033 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kinnitty. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kinnitty, 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.