placenamesCloone
An Chluain
Lewis’s 1837 account distinguishes six public schools from a larger network of pay schools.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Chluain · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Cloone · English · main form
Place & story
Two forms of provision
Across Cloone’s wider parish, Samuel Lewis recorded six public schools teaching about 340 boys and 200 girls in 1837. The rector supported one school, while S. White supported two others. Alongside them were twenty-five pay schools with roughly 1,440 children, and two Sunday schools. These were parish-wide figures spanning Carrigallen and Mohill baronies. They describe a varied network of teaching, rather than the enrolment or funding of a single school in Cloone village. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Leitrim
- Barony
- Carrigallen
- Barony
- Mohill
- Coordinates
- 53.92531, -7.78402
- Mapped area
- 168 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1476 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloone. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cloon or Clone: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-07-02. How this page was prepared.