Also (and confusingly) known as Kirkby Ireleth, as there was already a parish in the same deanery of Cartmel and Furness called Kirkby Ireleth. Dte of foundation of chapel here taken as the same as the school. In 1650 the Commonwealth Church Suvey noted, 'That the Chappell of Irleth is not farr distant from its parish Church [Dalton in Furness], but neare enough thereto, and was onely built for a schoole, and some for their perticuler ease would have the same made a Chappell', Lancashire & Cheshire Church Surveys, 1649-1655, ed. H. Fishwick, Lancs. & Ches. Rec. Soc., vol. 1 (1879), 138.