placenamesKilcommon
Cill Chomáin
Lewis recorded a church enlargement alongside Earl Fitzwilliam’s support for a priest’s residence and schooling.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chomáin · Irish · main form
- Kilcommon · English · main form
Place & story
Buildings and an annual school subscription
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Kilcommon account records an enlargement of the Church of Ireland church in 1820, assisted by a £700 loan from the Board of First Fruits. He also identified the Catholic parish priest’s residence as a building provided by Earl Fitzwilliam. The earl subscribed £6 annually to a public school attended by about ninety children; a separate private school taught approximately the same number. The subscription was a yearly contribution, distinct from the church-building loan. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Coordinates
- 52.82348, -6.48568
- Mapped area
- 45.18 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2697 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcommon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcommon, Ballinacor: 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.