placenamesKill Saint Nicholas
Cill San Niocláis
Lewis recorded educational patronage and an additional place of worship at Passage.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill San Niocláis · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kill Saint Nicholas · English · main form
Place & story
A classroom on Sunday evenings
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kill Saint Nicholas parish in County Waterford places its church at Passage, where Sunday evening services also took place in a school. The school provided an additional place for worship alongside the church. Lewis recorded £139 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for church repairs, without identifying that sum as the cost of building the school. [2]
Schools across the parish
About 120 children attended two public schools, while forty-five were taught in two private schools. The archdeacon and the Marquess of Waterford assisted the parochial school. Lewis did not give their individual contributions or establish that this was the same schoolroom used for evening services. His description concerns the historical parish, which included Passage and surrounding land. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kill Saint Nicholas. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kill-St.-Nicholas, 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.