placenamesKilbeggan
Cill Bheagáin
The congregation’s history records separate school rolls before the later Saint Joseph’s building.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bheagáin · Irish · main form
- Kilbeggan · English · main form
Place & story
Teaching before the convent move
The Mercy schools in Kilbeggan opened on 10 January 1880, according to the congregation’s historical account. By the end of that month, it recorded 200 pupils in the school for poor children and forty in the fee-paying pension school. The foundation stone for a new convent and school, Saint Joseph’s, was laid in 1891. The building was completed in 1896, when the Sisters moved in; its chapel followed in 1906. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbeggan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbeggan: Mercy schools and convent history · Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy; individual author not identified
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.