placenamesKilcar
Cill Charthaigh
Lewis recorded support for a parochial school attended by about one hundred children.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Charthaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilcar · English · main form
Place & story
An endowed school
Kilcar’s parochial school received an endowment from Colonel Robertson’s fund, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. About one hundred children attended that school. He separately listed three other schools in the parish, without giving their individual names or attendance. The recorded hundred pupils therefore belong to the endowed school, rather than a combined total for all four. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcar. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilcar: 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.