placenamesKilnagross
Cill na gCros
Lewis recorded a school endowment alongside quarrying and flour milling in the Cork parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill na gCros · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilnagross · English · main form
Place & story
Support did not mean year-round opening
Kilnagross parish in County Cork had a parochial school with about forty children when Samuel Lewis described it in 1837. The rector assisted the school, while T. Hodnet had endowed it with a house and an acre of land. Despite that support, Lewis recorded that it closed during winter. He gave no reason for the seasonal closure. A Sunday school was separately mentioned, without establishing that it followed the same calendar. [2]
Slate and flour
The same account identifies a slate quarry at Forkhill and a large flour mill at Shannon Vale. It provides two distinct locations for industrial activity within the parish, rather than locating either undertaking at Kilnagross’s church. Lewis does not give their workforce, output or dates of establishment. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (E.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.65398, -8.87421
- Mapped area
- 15.04 km²
- Logainm ID
- 627 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilnagross. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilnagross, 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.