placenamesCoolbanagher
Cúil Bheannchair
Lewis recorded distinct contributions towards the parish’s educational provision.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cúil Bheannchair · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Coolbanagher · English · main form
Place & story
Schools at Moret and Emo
Coolbanagher’s parochial school stood at Moret in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. He also described a substantial slated school building under Erasmus Smith’s trustees, costing £500, chiefly paid by I. C. Chetwood. The school at Emo received a different form of support: twenty acres endowed by the Honourable Lionel Dawson. About seven hundred children attended the parish schools collectively. The account distinguishes money spent on a building from land provided for another school, without assigning the full attendance total to either institution. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Portnahinch
- Coordinates
- 53.09631, -7.19799
- Mapped area
- 38.92 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1466 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Coolbanagher. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Coolbanagher or Coolbenger, 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.