placenamesKilbride
Cill Bhríde
Lewis described this Kilcoursey parish as Kilbride-Langan, distinguishing it from Tullamore’s Kilbride.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bhríde · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbride · English · main form
Place & story
Worship at Lehinch and Clara
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kilbride-Langan, or Clara, placed the parish in Kilcoursey barony. It recorded a Catholic chapel at Lehinch and a school there supported by the Christian Brotherhood. Clara town also had a chapel, with a larger one planned for construction. Lewis separately noted Baptist worship and places of worship for both Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. The proposed chapel should be distinguished from the buildings already serving the district. [2]
Two kinds of schooling
Across the parish, Lewis counted about forty-five children in the parochial schools and about 240 in seven private schools. The latter figure was the combined attendance of those seven schools, rather than the size of any one establishment. His entry describes the historical parish around Clara, rather than the separate Kilbride associated with Tullamore in Ballycowan barony. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Offaly
- Barony
- Kilcoursey
- Coordinates
- 53.34796, -7.60172
- Mapped area
- 30.86 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2951 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbride. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilbride-Langan — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.