placenamesBailieborough
Coill an Chollaigh
Local institutional history records practical education and dairy cooperation beyond the market story.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Coill an Chollaigh · Irish · main form
- Bailieborough · English · main form
- Killan · English · main form · historical name
- Killann · English · main form · historical name
Place & story
A farm for agricultural training
Bailieborough’s Model House opened as an agricultural training school in 1847, with a forty-eight-acre farm attached. Leslie McKeague’s local history records accommodation for eight boarding pupils, who learned farming through practical work as well as theory. The building later housed vocational classes before demolition made way for a new technical school, linking two forms of occupational education. [2]
The Model Schools and later classrooms
Sir John Young funded Model Schools in 1848, providing separate boys’ and girls’ sections, with an infants’ department added later. Catholic pupils withdrew in 1885 and subsequently attended Saint Anne’s school. The local account records further movements between buildings as numbers increased: boys returned to rooms in the Model School in 1928 when Saint Anne’s could no longer accommodate them. [2]
Milk from Millmount to a cooperative
The Bailieborough Central Cooperative Creamery was established in 1902, with origins in Mary Simpson’s Millmount Dairy at Crochnahattina. A new creamery followed in 1903 on land provided by W. Smyth. McKeague records a construction cost of £559 and an opening in 1904, initially receiving 350 gallons of milk daily. The sequence connects a named local dairy operator with the cooperative’s development. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Barony
- Clankee
- Coordinates
- 53.92591, -6.98775
- Mapped area
- 50.24 km²
- Logainm ID
- 368 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Bailieborough. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- A Rich History: Bailieborough institutions · Leslie McKeague, Bailieborough community history
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-30. How this page was prepared.