placenamesColehill
Cnoc na Góla
Colehill’s history survives in an eighteenth-century house, the paperwork of a nineteenth-century postmaster and the development of its national school.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cnoc na Góla · Irish · main form · validated name
- Colehill · English · main form
Place & story
Colehill House and its tenants
Colehill House incorporates a building dated to the 1760s, with later nineteenth-century additions. The University of Galway’s Landed Estates record traces different occupants: Thomas Lennon appears in the 1840s house books, while Captain Robert N. Bolton leased it from Mrs Power at the time of Griffith’s Valuation in the 1850s. The valuation was almost £18. Such records distinguish the household occupying a house from the people who owned or leased the property. [2]
The working courtyard
The outbuildings northwest of Colehill House form a courtyard developed around 1800 and altered around 1860. Single-storey and two-storey ranges preserve slate roofs, old timber doors and sash windows. A chimney in one range suggests an additional function, perhaps a smithy or accommodation, although its exact use is uncertain. The group shows the scale of service buildings needed alongside a substantial rural house. [3]
The deputy postmaster’s bond
A National Archives catalogue records a bond dated 2 June 1826 concerning Charles Cody’s work as deputy postmaster at Colehill. Cody and two other men were bound to the Crown for £300 for his good behaviour in office. Preserved among documents relating to Colehill property, this small record gives a precise glimpse of the village’s postal service and the financial guarantees attached to a public appointment. [4]
A new school in 1965
Saint Sinneach’s National School was built in 1965 to replace separate boys’ and girls’ schools dating from 1898. The school’s history recalls pupils being taught in temporary local accommodation during construction. The new building initially had three classrooms and later expanded as pupils from Clonfide joined it. A general-purpose room and classroom were added in 1979–80, followed by further extensions in 1997 and 2007–08. [5]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Longford
- Barony
- Shrule
- Civil parish
- Taghshinny
- Coordinates
- 53.59842, -7.68277 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414187 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Colehill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Colehill (Longford), property 6019 · University of Galway, Landed Estates
- Colehill House: outbuildings, register 13402331 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Small Private Accessions, collection 999/236, page 323 · National Archives of Ireland
- History of our school · Colehill National School
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.