placenamesTreantagh
Na Tréantacha
A locally funded bus helped Trentagh National School retain its two-teacher status in 2014.
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
- Na Tréantacha · Irish · main form · validated name
- Treantagh · English · main form
Place & story
Keeping two teachers
In May 2014, Trentagh National School began funding a bus service from the Letterkenny and Kilmacrennan areas to attract pupils. Falling enrolment had put one of its two teaching posts at risk. Principal Norma Summers and the board of management organised the service as part of their campaign to retain both teachers. By late June, Summers told Donegal Daily that the school had secured sufficient pupils for the following September. The episode records a practical community response to the pressures facing a small rural school. [2] [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Civil parish
- Conwal
- Within
- Templedouglas
- Within
- Carnatreantagh
- Coordinates
- 55.00035, -7.84372 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 130447 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Treantagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tiny school forced to pay for its own bus service to survive, 19 May 2014 · Stephen Maguire, Donegal Daily
- Tiny school wins battle to keep teacher after hiring their own bus, 27 June 2014 · Stephen Maguire, Donegal Daily
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.