placenamesKilmacrenan
Cill Mhic Réanáin
An 1837 account records a house built with both a grant and a loan, alongside endowed schooling.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Mhic Réanáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilmacrenan · English · main form
Place & story
Different forms of support
Kilmacrenan’s glebe-house received a £100 gift and a £1,125 loan from the Board of First Fruits in 1815, according to Samuel Lewis. These were separate forms of assistance towards its construction. His 1837 parish account also recorded two public schools, with donations from Colonel Robertson’s fund supporting the parochial school. Nine private schools and five Sunday schools added other teaching arrangements across the parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Coordinates
- 55.05254, -7.78611 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 143.95 km²
- Logainm ID
- 802 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilmacrenan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilmacrenan: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-06-25. How this page was prepared.