placenamesKilrossanty
Cill Rosanta
Lewis recorded support through an annual subscription, a schoolhouse and a donated site.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Rosanta · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilrossanty · English · main form
Place & story
Palliser and Barron’s contributions
Colonel Palliser supplied a schoolhouse in Kilrossanty parish and subscribed £40 annually to its public school, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. About twenty children attended. A second schoolhouse near the Catholic chapel had recently been built through subscriptions, on land donated by Pierse G. Barron, and taught around seventy children. Lewis separately recorded three private schools with approximately 250 pupils. His account distinguishes an individual’s continuing support from a building financed collectively on a benefactor’s site. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Decies-without-Drum
- Coordinates
- 52.17037, -7.53267
- Mapped area
- 70.25 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2403 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilrossanty. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilrossanty: 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.