placenamesAghmacart
Achadh Mhic Airt
Lewis’s parish account records a seasonal trading date and an outside source of Sunday-school materials.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Achadh Mhic Airt · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Aghmacart · English · main form
Place & story
Fairs and schooling in 1837
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account places fairs at Cullahill on 27 May and 2 October, identifying the October gathering as a large sheep fair. The dates belong to his historical description, rather than a present-day calendar. He also records books supplied to a local Sunday school by the Sunday School Society of Dublin. Three fee-paying schools taught about one hundred boys and eighty-six girls altogether. The Sunday school’s book supply was a separate arrangement from those pay-school totals. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Clarmallagh
- Coordinates
- 52.82352, -7.47904
- Mapped area
- 41.66 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1413 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aghmacart. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aughamacart or Aghamacart: 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.