placenamesLackagh
An Leacach
Lewis records separate funding for a glebe-house and the later rebuilding of the church.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Leacach · Irish · main form
- Lackagh · English · main form
Place & story
Two building projects
Lackagh’s glebe-house was erected in 1816 with help from the Board of First Fruits: a £350 loan and a £450 gift. Samuel Lewis distinguishes that project from the parish church, rebuilt around 1835 with a grant from the same body. His 1837 account places the rectory in the diocese of Kildare and records its union with Doneny vicarage. The two building dates and the different forms of financial support document successive investment in the parish’s church buildings. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Coordinates
- 53.17371, -7.04082
- Mapped area
- 33.8 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1202 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lackagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lackagh, Kildare: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-10-23. How this page was prepared.