placenamesKilnamanagh
Cill na Manach
Dursey’s nineteenth-century school preserves traces of how island children learned and played.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill na Manach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilnamanagh · English · main form
Place & story
The island school
Dursey Island National School, in Kilmichael townland, was built in 1891. Its single-storey stone building has a gabled entrance porch and a slate roof. Red-brick arches frame the windows, while a carved limestone plaque marks the porch. Timber sash windows, decorative iron vents and an interior limestone fireplace are among the details recorded by the architectural survey. [2]
Separate playgrounds
Two outbuildings survive behind the school, on either side of a dividing wall. The wall separated the boys’ and girls’ playgrounds. These modest structures and boundaries add evidence of the school’s everyday organisation to the more conspicuous classroom building. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilnamanagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dursey Island National School, NIAH 20912602 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.