placenamesKilmeadan
Cill Mhíodáin
An account from 1837 records a substantial paper workforce alongside mills, river navigation and educational patronage.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhíodáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilmeadan · English · main form
Place & story
Industry beside the Suir
Samuel Lewis recorded about 140 people employed at the paper manufactory at Fair Brook in 1837. Elsewhere in Kilmeadan parish, Pouldrew had a large corn mill and stores. Lewis also noted that the Suir here could carry substantial vessels. His account documents several kinds of economic activity without identifying the paper factory’s customers or the cargoes passing through the mill stores. [2]
Support for education
Viscount Doneraile contributed annually to the parochial school, while Mrs. Christmas supported another school. Together those two schools taught about two hundred children. Lewis separately counted approximately 140 pupils at two private schools; that figure was not the enrolment of the Doneraile-supported school. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Glenahiry
- Barony
- Upperthird
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.24304, -7.26972
- Mapped area
- 39.61 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2399 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmeadan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmeaden — 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.