placenamesKilfree
Cill Fraoigh
Lewis records a building loan and distinguishes a public school from eight private schools.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Fraoigh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilfree · English · main form
Place & story
A loan for the parish church
Samuel Lewis recorded Kilfree’s Church of Ireland church as a plain building with a square tower, erected in 1826. The Board of First Fruits provided a £600 loan towards it. His account places Kilfree within the ecclesiastical union of Killaraght; the loan was financial assistance for the building, rather than a stated total construction cost. [2]
Public and private teaching
About fifty children attended a public school in the parish in 1837. Eight private schools together taught about 260 children. Lewis reported those groups separately, without naming the teachers or giving individual school locations. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilfree. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilfree: 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.