placenamesKilmaloda
Cill Molúda
Lewis recorded different forms of assistance to education and parish buildings.
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 Molúda · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilmaloda · English · main form
Place & story
Building and sustaining a school
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Kilmaloda parish in County Cork, written as Kilmalooda, records a parochial school built by the rector, who remained its chief supporter. About forty children attended. Three private schools together taught roughly 160 children, and the rector also supervised a Sunday school. The account does not name the teachers or divide the private-school attendance among individual classrooms. [2]
A gift and a larger loan
For the glebe house, the Board of First Fruits gave £100 and lent £1,500 in 1813. The loan was therefore much larger than the gift, although Lewis did not provide the complete construction bill. The parish church belonged to an earlier building campaign: he dated it to 1795 and described its tall square tower. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (E.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.67219, -8.81427
- Mapped area
- 29.6 km²
- Logainm ID
- 736 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmaloda. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmalooda, 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.