placenamesKilcooley
Cill Chúile
A primary school and a women’s centre form two long-running institutions in the Bangor community.
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 Chúile · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilcooley · English · main form
Place & story
The primary school
Kilcooley Primary School opened in September 1969 to serve the estate and neighbouring areas. Its own history records the creation of the Rainbow Room nurture group in September 2009, supporting children’s transition into mainstream classrooms. Specialist provision began with one learning-support class in September 2019. [2]
Women’s community work
Kilcooley Women’s Centre has provided services since 1995. Local women participate in its management and staffing, while its programmes combine education, employment skills, childcare and wellbeing. The centre’s original base in the Kilcooley estate connects this work to the local community, even as its activities have expanded across Ards and North Down. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Ards Lower
- Civil parish
- Bangor
- Coordinates
- 54.64634, -5.70698 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 130103 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilcooley. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Welcome — A little bit of history about Kilcooley · Kilcooley Primary School
- About Us · Kilcooley Women’s Centre
- The Kilcooley Obelisks at Bangor, as photographed in 2009 illustration: based on a The Kilcooley Obelisks, Bangor by Dean Molyneaux. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.