placenamesCloonclare
Cluain Chláir
An annual payment supported the Manorhamilton school within a wider parish network.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cluain Chláir · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Cloonclare · English · main form
Place & story
A legacy for teaching
James John Masterson’s 1819 bequest provided £26 6s 6d annually for the school at Manorhamilton, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Cloonclare account. That school formed part of a parish network of six schools which together taught about 170 boys and 230 girls. Lewis separately recorded fourteen boys and twenty-five girls in a private school. The annual provision therefore supported one institution among several serving the parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Leitrim
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Coordinates
- 54.30760, -8.09746
- Mapped area
- 133.54 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1475 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloonclare. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clonclare or Cloonclare, Leitrim: 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.