placenamesKilcavan
Cill Chaomháin
Lewis’s Kilkevan entry records classrooms and teachers’ accommodation near Little Limerick.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chaomháin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilcavan · English · main form
Place & story
Classrooms with two wings
In his 1837 account of the parish north-east of Gorey, which he called Kilkevan or Little Limerick, Samuel Lewis described a school beside the Catholic chapel at Killanearin. A central section and two wings contained classrooms for boys and girls, with living accommodation for the master and mistress. About 200 children attended. His description concerns this northern Wexford parish, distinct from the Kilcavan near Bannow. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Gorey
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Coordinates
- 52.71724, -6.26018 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 37.74 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2556 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcavan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilkevan or Little Limerick: 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.