placenamesTrafrask
Trá Phraisce
Trafrask’s school has brought successive generations together, with achievements reaching well beyond Beara.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Trá Phraisce · Irish · main form · validated name
- Trafrask · English · main form
Place & story
A school since 1851
Trafrask National School was founded in 1851 and continues to occupy its original two-storey building. For its 175th anniversary in 2026, pupils interviewed family members and displayed their findings alongside roll books and old photographs. One pupil traced six generations of family attendance. The celebration ended with trees planted to represent the school’s past, present and future. [2]
National success on the football field
In 2019 Trafrask pupils won an All-Ireland FAI Primary School five-a-side title at the Aviva Stadium. Two victories and a draw secured the school’s first national success in the competition. Principal Louisa O’Donoghue described how entering the tournament had encouraged more children to play football, with pupils subsequently joining clubs around Beara and west Cork. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Bear
- Civil parish
- Kilcaskan
- Within
- Trafrask West
- Coordinates
- 51.68179, -9.66293 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1166987 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Trafrask. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Trafrask NS celebrates 175 years and educating six generations, 2 March 2026 · Helen Riddell, Southern Star
- Despite having only 43 pupils, Beara school lifted the All-Ireland at the Aviva, 13 June 2019 · John Bohane, EchoLive
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.