placenamesStradbally
An Sráidbhaile
Lewis separates a supported national school from an earlier charter-school building.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Sráidbhaile · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Stradbally · English · main form
Place & story
Running support and construction costs
About eighty children attended Stradbally’s national school in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Mrs Cosby wholly supported it, although he did not state her annual expenditure or give her first name. Lewis separately recorded a former charter school whose building had cost £3,000, including a £300 gift from the late Poole Cosby. The two sums concern that earlier building, rather than the national school’s yearly running costs. Several private schools also operated, showing that local education extended beyond these two institutions. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Stradbally
- Coordinates
- 53.01609, -7.14417
- Mapped area
- 10.43 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1461 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Stradbally. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Stradbally, Queen’s County: 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.