placenamesKilmaley
Cill Mháille
Lewis records a licensed house at Gortnaganiff serving two parish functions.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mháille · Irish · main form
- Kilmaley · English · main form
Place & story
A schoolhouse used for services
In 1837 Samuel Lewis recorded regular Church of Ireland worship in a licensed house at Gortnaganiff, also used as a schoolhouse. He stated that the parish then had neither a Church of Ireland church nor a glebe-house. About thirty children attended the public school there; two private schools elsewhere in the parish taught about 150 collectively. The shared building supported both education and worship. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmaley. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmaly: 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.