placenamesInishkeel
Inis Caoil
An 1837 account records small schools across the parish and four annual fairs at Fintown.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Inis Caoil · Irish · main form · validated name
- Inishkeel · English · main form
Place & story
Education and market days
Samuel Lewis recorded two public schools with about a hundred pupils in Inishkeel parish in 1837. Colonel Robertson’s fund partly supported the parochial school; two private schools taught about sixty more children. At Fintown, fairs took place on 16 May and 3 July, September and November, and a revenue-police station operated there. The school totals describe provision across the parish, while the fair calendar belongs specifically to Fintown. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Inishkeel. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Inniskeel: 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.