placenamesKilchreest
Cill Chríost
Lewis distinguished a chapel-linked school from public and private provision.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Chríost · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kilchreest · English · main form
Place & story
Teaching in the parish in 1837
Lewis’s 1837 description of Kilchreest in Galway records a small Catholic chapel connected with a large school for about four hundred children. He separately listed a public school, partly supported by the rector, educating about eighty children, and a private school with about ninety. His account distinguishes different forms of support and organisation within the parish. The four-hundred figure belongs to the chapel-linked school, rather than representing a total for every school he mentioned. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilchreest. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kilchrist or Kilcriest, 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.