placenamesKilkeevin
Cill Chaoimhín
Lewis recorded annual estate payments to nine schools within the wider parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chaoimhín · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilkeevin · English · main form
Place & story
Support beyond a single schoolhouse
In 1837 Samuel Lewis counted 13 public schools in Kilkeevin parish, attended by about 1,200 children. Lord Mount-Sandford contributed between £10 and £40 annually to each of nine of them. Lewis separately recorded ten private schools with about 500 pupils. These parish-wide figures reveal the reach of estate support beyond Castlerea’s individual school buildings, while also showing that much teaching took place outside the publicly classified schools. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Coordinates
- 53.76737, -8.54172
- Mapped area
- 108.29 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2081 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilkeevin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilkeevan: 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.