placenamesErke
Adhairc
Lewis’s account records how church buildings and schooling were supported in the historical parish.
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
- Adhairc · Irish · main form · validated name
- Erke · English · main form
Place & story
Loans, gifts and school provision
Samuel Lewis described Erke in 1837 as a parish lying chiefly in County Kilkenny but extending into what is now County Laois. Its church had been erected in 1823 with a £650 loan from the Board of First Fruits. The glebe house had separate assistance: a £100 gift and an £800 loan. Lewis also recorded a parochial school supported by the rector, with a house and an acre of land provided rent-free. About fifty boys and fifty girls attended. These school figures concern the historical parish in his account, rather than a separately enumerated Kilkenny portion. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Erke. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Eirke — 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.