placenamesRathvilly
Ráth Bhile
Lewis’s account connects local school support with children arriving from outside the district.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Bhile · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Rathvilly · English · main form
Place & story
Several kinds of school support
At Tullow, in Rathvilly barony, Samuel Lewis recorded orphan children sent from Dublin to the monastery and convent schools for instruction. His 1837 account also identifies an infants’ school maintained by Charles Doyne and a school for boys and girls supported by subscriptions. The monastery’s national school received £20 annually from the Board of National Education for an additional master. These were distinct forms of support across several institutions, rather than the funding of one school. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathvilly. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tullow: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.