placenamesKiltullagh
Cill Tulach
Lewis’s parish account describes a Dominican school that provided clothing and food as well as lessons.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Tulach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Kiltullagh · English · main form
Place & story
A convent school in the parish account
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Kiltullagh in Galway recorded seven Dominican friars at Esker and a school connected with their convent. He estimated its attendance at about 600 children, of whom fifty received clothing and many were fed. The same parish entry listed a separate private school teaching about 120 children, as well as a Sunday school. These are distinct institutions in his account, rather than an attendance total for the later national school. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Kilconnell
- Barony
- Athenry
- Coordinates
- 53.27366, -8.61263
- Mapped area
- 37.44 km²
- Logainm ID
- 981 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kiltullagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kiltullagh, Galway: 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.