placenamesKilraghts
Cill Reachtais
Lewis recorded the schoolhouse’s construction separately from the parish’s other schools.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Reachtais · Irish · main form
- Kilraghts · English · main form
Place & story
A schoolhouse built in 1824
Kilraghts parish in County Antrim had a parochial schoolhouse built by subscription in 1824, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. The rector assisted the school, which then had about forty-five children. Two private schools separately taught about seventy children between them, and two Sunday schools were also listed. The figures distinguish the supported parochial school from other educational provision, without establishing the total number of individual children attending more than one school. [2]
Farmers who also wove
Lewis described the land as generally occupied by small farmers who spent part of their time weaving. His entry therefore records agricultural and textile work within the same households, without identifying the type of cloth, the number of looms or whether weaving was concentrated in particular seasons. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Dunluce Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.98103, -6.40663 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 20.84 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61308 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilraghts. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilraughts, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.