placenamesKilglass
Cill Ghlas
Lewis distinguished the original endowment, its later value and the cost of a stone schoolhouse.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Ghlas · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilglass · English · main form
Place & story
The Rev. J. Valentine’s bequest
One of Kilglass parish’s public schools was endowed with £400 left by the Rev. J. Valentine. By Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account, the fund had grown to £865. Lewis separately recorded a stone schoolhouse costing £215. Those amounts describe the original bequest, accumulated fund and building expense respectively. About 240 children attended the parish’s three public schools altogether, while another 370 or so were taught across six private schools. Lewis did not give attendance at the endowed school alone. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilglass. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilglass, Sligo: 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.