placenamesStonecarthy
Stún Cárthaigh
Lewis counted three schools in the parish in 1837, including one specifically for younger children.
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
- Stún Cárthaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Stonecarthy · English · main form
Place & story
Three schools and a village chapel
Under the spelling Stamcarthy, Samuel Lewis recorded three parish schools educating about 120 children between them in 1837. One was an infants’ school supported by Mrs Flood; he did not give her first name or the amount of her contribution. His account placed the Catholic chapel in Stoneyford village and linked the district with Ballyhale. These details describe the early nineteenth-century parish, without identifying the school buildings that survive today. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kilkenny
- Barony
- Shillelogher
- Barony
- Kells
- Barony
- Knocktopher
- Coordinates
- 52.52305, -7.23804
- Mapped area
- 6.97 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1363 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Stonecarthy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Stamcarthy 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.