placenamesCullen
Cuilleann
School provision, the financing of a glebe house and surviving parish records add to the history of Cullen’s border district.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Cuilleann · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cuilleann Ó gCuanach · Irish · main form · historical name
- Cullen · English · main form
Place & story
Schools supported in different ways
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account records about twenty boys and ten girls attending Cullen’s parochial schools, supported by the incumbent. A further 120 children attended two hedge schools. The figures describe the parish rather than a single village classroom. They preserve a mixed educational landscape, where clerical support and smaller independent schools operated alongside one another before the later national-school system became dominant. [2]
Financing the glebe house
Cullen’s glebe house was built in 1819 with assistance from the Board of First Fruits: a £100 gift and a £900 loan. Lewis placed it within a Church of Ireland union that included Solloghodmore, Solloghodbeg and Toughcluggin, with three glebes together amounting to just over forty-five acres. The house and its supporting lands formed part of the practical organisation of ministry across several parishes. [2]
The surviving parish archive
Cullen’s surviving Church of Ireland records document community life over more than two centuries. The Representative Church Body Library lists a combined register beginning with marriages in 1775 and baptisms and burials in 1779. Vestry books cover 1809–1869,1870–1907 and 1912–1923. Later registers continue into the twentieth century, while the register of vestrymen extends to 2008 and includes Tipperary and Cullen together from 1935. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Coordinates
- 52.50891, -8.26761
- Mapped area
- 8.03 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2266 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cullen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cullen parish,A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Cullen (Emly) parish archive,P.1066,11 March2016 · Representative Church Body Library
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.