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Cill Ard
Lewis records practical support for two schools in the Clare parish.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Ard · Irish · main form
- Cill Aird, Cill Arda · Irish · main form · historical name
- Killard · English · main form
Place & story
A building and ground for education
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Killard account records a parochial school supported by the incumbent and Mr Straight. Straight provided its schoolhouse and a piece of ground rent-free. A second school received partial support from the parish priest. Lewis gives about seventy pupils for these two schools together, with roughly 340 children attending four private schools elsewhere in the parish. His description identifies different sources of support without naming the teachers or locating the individual school buildings. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killard. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killard: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2022-09-03. How this page was prepared.