placenamesKilrush
Cill Rois
Lewis’s account places two schools upstairs in the market-house, with a separate schoolhouse still only proposed.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Rois · Irish · main form
- Kilrush · English · main form
Place & story
Shared premises and different patrons
Two Kilrush schools occupied the upper part of the market-house when Samuel Lewis described the parish in 1837. One received support from Erasmus Smith’s charity, whose trustees paid the master £30 annually; the other, the parochial school, was chiefly supported by the incumbent. A third public school was supervised by the Catholic clergyman, who allowed its master £12 a year. Lewis’s total of about 280 pupils covered all three schools, not simply the market-house classrooms. Mr Vandeleur was considering a schoolhouse for the two upstairs schools, but Lewis did not describe that proposal as completed. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilrush. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilrush: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-08. How this page was prepared.