placenamesKillymard
Cill Ó mBaird
Lewis records a small annual school gift alongside a purpose-built bathing establishment.
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 Ó mBaird · Irish · main form · validated name
- Killymard · English · main form
Place & story
Mr Murray’s annual donation
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Killymard account records six public schools teaching about 440 children. One received £5 annually from Mr Murray of Broughton. A separate private school taught twenty children. Lewis did not identify which of the public schools received the gift, so the donation belongs to his account of the parish network. [2]
A pump-room and several kinds of bath
At a sulphurous spring in the parish, Lewis recorded a pump-room and hot, cold and shower baths erected by its proprietor, Mr Murray. These facilities document the development of a bathing establishment in the early nineteenth-century parish. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killymard. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killymard: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-08-18. How this page was prepared.