placenamesKilmacabea
Cill Macaibí
General O’Donovan endowed the parochial school with an acre of land.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Macaibí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilmacabea · English · main form
Place & story
An acre supporting education
In 1837 Samuel Lewis recorded that Kilmacabea’s parochial school had been endowed with an acre of land by the late General O’Donovan. His account also lists three other public schools and a Sunday school supported by the rector and curate. The endowment was therefore one element of a wider parish school network, rather than the only provision for education in the area. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (W.D.)
- Barony
- Carbery West (E.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.60853, -9.14647
- Mapped area
- 55.56 km²
- Logainm ID
- 616 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmacabea. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmacabea: 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.