placenamesKilranelagh
Cill Rannaileach
Lewis described teaching rooms and accommodation for teachers within the parish’s estate landscape.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Rannaileach · Irish · main form
- Kilranelagh · English · main form
Place & story
A school supported by a family
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilranelagh recorded a schoolhouse in the Fort Granite demesne, with apartments for a master and mistress. The proprietor and his family had built it and provided its support. More than eighty boys and girls attended. Lewis described its education as strongly religious, without naming the teachers or detailing the timetable. [2]
Infants, adults and another school centre
A separate infants’ school and a dwelling for its mistress served twenty to thirty children daily. Sunday teaching used the schoolhouse and drew adults as well as children. Elsewhere in the parish, Englishtown had a Catholic chapel and national schools for boys and girls. The entry records these different forms of provision without giving a single combined pupil total. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Coordinates
- 52.92680, -6.62592
- Mapped area
- 18.09 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2703 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilranelagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilranelagh — 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.