placenamesKilmuckridge
Cill Mhucraise
Lewis’s parish account separates public and private schooling and places the Catholic chapel at Litter.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhucraise · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilmuckridge · English · main form
Place & story
Five schools, two categories
In 1837 Samuel Lewis recorded a public school in Kilmuckridge parish educating about fifty children. Four private schools taught about 130 more between them. These are separate totals for different kinds of school, rather than a count of children in a single village classroom. His account does not identify the teachers or individual schoolhouses. [2]
A district centred on Litter
Lewis placed the Catholic chapel at Litter within Kilmuckridge parish. The wider district also included Killancooly and most of Monamolin, so its reach extended beyond this civil parish. The established-church curacy had different connections, being held with Melina and the vicarage of Ballyvalden. These arrangements describe the ecclesiastical geography Lewis recorded in 1837. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Ballaghkeen North
- Coordinates
- 52.51559, -6.29485
- Mapped area
- 17.09 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2579 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmuckridge. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmuckridge — 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.