placenamesKenry
Caonraí
Lewis recorded a domestic use for a building intended for parish teaching.
Recorded locationKenry52.60850° N · 8.85973° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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
- Caonraí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kenry · English · main form
Place & story
The schoolhouse in 1837
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Kildimo account records several poor families occupying the parochial schoolhouse. He separately counted about 200 children taught in six private schools across the parish. The brief notice preserves a change in the use of an educational building within Kenry, while leaving the families unnamed and giving no date for the beginning of their residence. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kenry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kildimo: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.