placenamesMainham
Maighneán
The Jesuit college was a distinctive institution within the parish in 1837.
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
- Maighneán · Irish · main form
- Mainham · English · main form
Place & story
The college and its chapel
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Mainham account places Clongowes Wood College in the parish and records about a hundred and twenty pupils there. Members of the Society of Jesus supervised the Catholic college, where the curriculum included classical literature. Its domestic chapel was the only Catholic chapel he listed for Mainham. Lewis described the college occupying a castellated mansion in wooded grounds, distinguishing this substantial institution from the parish’s surrounding farms. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Ikeathy and Oughterany
- Coordinates
- 53.32287, -6.69155
- Mapped area
- 11.45 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1207 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Mainham. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mainham, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.