placenamesKilcommon
Cill Chomáin
Lewis recorded separate forms of support for a small parochial school.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chomáin · Irish · main form
- Kilcommon · English · main form
Place & story
Patrons and pupils
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilcommon parish near Rathdrum, County Wicklow, records a parochial school attended by about twenty children. Archdeacon Magee assisted it, while Mr. Bailey of Ballyarthur had given a house and an acre of land. Lewis did not put a monetary value on those contributions. Two private schools taught about sixty children between them. This Kilcommon is the parish near Rathdrum, distinct from the Wicklow parish of the same name around Tinahely. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcommon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcommon or Kilcolman, Newcastle, 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.