placenamesLoughgilly
Loch Goilí
Lewis distinguished an existing glebe school from a planned endowment at Killycarran.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Loch Goilí · Irish · main form
- Loughgilly · English · main form
Place & story
Building and funding classrooms
Samuel Lewis recorded a parochial schoolhouse built on Loughgilly’s glebe in 1813 for £250. In 1837 a further schoolhouse at Killycarran was still being built by the Education Society. The society intended to provide £30 annually from surplus funds of the collegiate school at Armagh. His account therefore distinguishes an existing school building from a project and endowment still in prospect. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Fews Lower
- Barony
- Orior Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.24703, -6.48415 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 2731 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Loughgilly. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Loughgilly: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-20. How this page was prepared.