placenamesKilbixy
Cill Bhiscí
Lewis recorded subscription-supported activity at Rath and a church furnished through Lord Sunderlin’s patronage.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bhiscí · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilbixy · English · main form
Place & story
A loan fund at Rath
In his 1837 account of Kilbixy, Samuel Lewis recorded a loan fund at Rath and a society for spinning yarn, supported by subscriptions. He placed these activities within a largely arable and pastoral parish bordering Lough Iron. The account records their presence without supplying the society’s membership, the fund’s capital or the scale of yarn production. [2]
The church and glebe-house
Lewis credited the late Lord Sunderlin with paying for the parish church and donating its organ. A separate building scheme concerned the glebe-house: in 1816 the Board of First Fruits provided a £450 gift and a £50 loan towards its erection. These sums were assistance for the house, rather than the cost of the church or organ. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbixy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbixy — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.