placenamesKillegney
Cill Éignigh
The schoolmistress received an annual allowance and a cottage, according to Lewis’s 1837 account.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Éignigh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Killegney · English · main form
Place & story
A schoolhouse and a teacher’s home
Samuel Lewis recorded a schoolhouse for girls near Castleboro in Killegney parish in 1837. Lady Carew had built it and provided the mistress with fifteen pounds a year, together with an adjoining cottage free of rent. About thirty children attended. Lewis distinguished this establishment from a private school teaching about forty children and also mentioned a Sunday school. His account records other local support alongside education: Lord Carew and grand jury presentments maintained a fever hospital and dispensary. The schoolhouse and cottage are described as adjoining buildings, but Lewis’s entry does not establish their exact modern location or whether either survives. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killegney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killegney, 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.