placenamesKilleeshil
Cill Íseal
Lewis records the Reverend D. Kelly’s contribution to the parochial school.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cill Íseal · Irish · main form
- Killeeshil · English · main form
Place & story
Building and supporting the school
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Killeshill account records about 140 children attending the parochial school, an institution on Erasmus Smith’s foundation that also received help from the rector. The Reverend D. Kelly, already deceased when Lewis wrote, had contributed £50 towards its schoolhouse. That sum was assistance with construction, rather than an annual payment or the full cost of the building. Lewis separately mentions five other public schools, showing that the parochial school was one part of a wider educational network. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.48361, -6.92756 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 39.86 km²
- Logainm ID
- 63158 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killeeshil. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killeshill, Killishil or Killeshal: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2016-11-18. How this page was prepared.