placenamesKilbarrack
Cill Bharróg
Kilbarrack’s growing community built new schools and developed an adult education project rooted in local women’s shared work.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Bharróg · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kilbarrack · English · main form
Place & story
Schools for a growing community
Scoil Iosagáin opened in 1967 for children in Kilbarrack-Foxfield. A separate boys’ school, Scoil Lorcáin, followed as the area’s population grew. Classes exceeded forty pupils, according to the school’s own history. Naomh Barróg was founded in Scoil Lorcáin in 1974. Falling enrolments later brought the two schools together as Scoil Eoin in 1989. In 1990 Mrs Reynolds and Sixth Class designed a shared crest for the amalgamated school. [2]
Women create an education project
KLEAR began in 1980 after local women organised a successful summer project for their children. With a community worker, they decided to continue meeting and pursue education themselves. Courses first used rented school rooms before the group secured part of a local infants’ school. Kilbarrack Local Education for Adult Renewal became a limited company and obtained charitable status in 1995. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kilbarrack. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Brief History of Scoil Eoin and the School Crest · Scoil Eoin National School
- Our Story · KLEAR Adult Education
- Kilbarrack DART station, as photographed in 2007 illustration: based on a Kilbarrack DART Station by Raymond Okonski. 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 2011-06-21. How this page was prepared.