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An Chill
A long school range at Palmerstown preserves decorative window alterations and smaller traces of everyday use.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Chill · Irish · main form
- Kill · English · main form
Place & story
An early school altered in the nineteenth century
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage dates Johnstown’s Old School House, in Palmerstown, to about 1800. It suggests that the six-bay range may originally have comprised two separate buildings. Alterations around 1880 introduced diamond-leaded windows, including groups of lancet-shaped lights, beneath an overhanging slate canopy. A cast-iron lattice beam adds another decorative element. The survey also recorded internal timber shutters and a cast-iron boot scraper beside the stone-paved frontage: smaller fittings associated with the building’s daily use. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Old School House, Palmerstown, Johnstown, NIAH 11812002 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2014-05-21. How this page was prepared.