placenamesKilkenny West
Cill Chainnigh
Lewis named both an institutional fund and an individual school benefactor.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Chainnigh · Irish · main form
- Kilkenny West · English · main form
Place & story
Different sources of parish support
Drumraney’s perpetual curate received £100 annually in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account: £60 from the incumbent of the Ballyloughloe union and £40 from Primate Boulter’s augmentation fund. Lewis also identified H. K. Digby as the builder of one of the parish’s three public schools. Together those schools taught about a hundred children, while three private schools taught approximately 120. The account distinguishes support for a clerical post from the separate provision of teaching buildings. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilkenny West. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drumraney: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.