placenamesBordwell
Bordaíol
Lewis recorded the patrons of a parochial school and a separate national school at Fox Rock.
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
- Bordaíol · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Bordwell · English · main form
Place & story
Supporting the schools
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Bordwell parish, in what is now County Laois, records a parochial school maintained through subscriptions and annual gifts. Named contributors included Lord Lorton, the rector and Mr. Roe, alongside others whom he did not identify. A national school operated at Fox Rock. Together the schools taught about fifty boys and thirty girls; Lewis did not divide those totals between the institutions. He also recorded worship in a schoolhouse while the parish church stood in ruins, without naming the classroom used for services. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Clarmallagh
- Barony
- Clandonagh
- Coordinates
- 52.87595, -7.52353
- Mapped area
- 11.72 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1423 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Bordwell. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Bordwell, 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.