placenamesPortnascully
Port na Scoile
Lewis’s 1837 account records both weekday teaching and a Sunday school in this Suir-side parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Port na Scoile · Irish · main form · validated name
- Portnascully · English · main form
Place & story
Education in the nineteenth-century parish
Writing under the spelling Portnescully, Samuel Lewis recorded about 240 boys attending two private schools in the parish in 1837. He also listed a Sunday school, without giving its attendance. His account placed Carrigeen’s Catholic chapel within Portnascully and linked it to the wider Mooncoin district. The Church of Ireland parish had a different connection, forming part of the union of Poleroan. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Portnascully. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Portnescully in 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.