The name "Namilyango" is also applied to the village that occupies the hill and the schools and churches that are located there.

Namilyango is located approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi), by road, east of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.

[1] Its location is approximately 7 kilometres (4.3 mi), by road, southwest of Mukono, the district headquarters,[2] and about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi), by road, south of the township of Seeta.

Around 1900, the Mill Hill Missionaries settled on the hill and begun to build Namilyango College, a prestigious middle and high school, intended originally to educate the sons of chiefs.

[4] In 1932, the Franciscan Sisters, under the leadership of Mother Kevin from Ireland, after a request by Bishop Campling the then Prelate of Upper Nile Vicariate, opened Namilyango Boys' Junior School.