placenamesKilgobnet
Cill Ghobnait
Gortnascarry’s school history records three successive teachers before its pupils joined Kilgobnet in 1969.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Ghobnait · Irish · main form
- Kilgobnet · English · main form
Place & story
A small school and its succession
Pete Coghlan’s parish history dates Gortnascarry National School to 1896. Its first teacher was Mrs Cashman, née Foley, from Brookhill. John Coffey of Carubeg succeeded her in 1932, followed by Maureen Clifford of Cullina in 1962. In 1969 the school closed, and its teacher and pupils transferred by bus to Kilgobnet National School. The sequence preserves the names behind a small district school and identifies the final consolidation with its neighbour. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilgobnet. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Education: Our Parish by Pete Coghlan B.A. · Pete Coghlan, Beaufort Parish
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2009-02-18. How this page was prepared.