placenamesKilcorkey
Cill Churcaí
Lewis records uneven farming conditions and a named annual contribution to education.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Churcaí · Irish · main form
- Kilcorkey · English · main form
Place & story
Land beside the streams
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes Kilcorkey’s gently rising ground, bogs and good pasture. It distinguishes land beside streams flowing into Lough Gara, where frequent flooding produced coarse grass. Limestone, freestone and sandstone were also obtained in the parish. [2]
An annual school contribution
About 170 children attended two public schools, one receiving £20 annually from Lord Mount-Sandford. Lewis separately records about ninety pupils at a private school. The named contribution therefore supported one of the public schools, while the 170-pupil figure describes both together. The account does not identify which school received the payment or specify its full annual income. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Coordinates
- 53.82558, -8.36082
- Mapped area
- 36.77 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2078 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcorkey. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcorkey: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.