placenamesKilpipe
Cill Phíp
Lewis distinguished Fitzwilliam’s provision for Carraghlean from separate assistance to the parish church.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Phíp · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilpipe · English · main form
Place & story
Land and a stone schoolhouse
Samuel Lewis described Kilpipe in 1837 as extending across Wicklow and Wexford, chiefly in Wicklow. At Carraghlean, about eighty children attended a school supported by the trustees of Erasmus Smith’s charity. Earl Fitzwilliam provided two acres and built the stone schoolhouse at a cost of £150. Lewis separately recorded a private school with 130 pupils; that total does not belong to Carraghlean’s endowed school. [2]
A loan for enlargement
The church was repaired and enlarged with help from a £100 Board of First Fruits loan in 1817. By Lewis’s account, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had subsequently granted another £183 for repairs. The union’s glebe house was elsewhere, in Killinor parish, and should not be placed in Kilpipe simply because the two parishes shared an incumbent. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Coordinates
- 52.82777, -6.36854
- Mapped area
- 63.6 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2701 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilpipe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilpipe, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2022-04-11. How this page was prepared.