placenamesCloonlogher
Cluain Lothair
An 1837 account pairs improvements to mountain land with schooling at Larkfield.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Lothair · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Cloonlogher · English · main form
Place & story
Land and learning in 1837
Samuel Lewis reported successful attempts at irrigating Cloonlogher’s mountain land in 1837, alongside a small bog and plentiful limestone. He placed the parish on the Carrick-on-Shannon–Manorhamilton road. At Larkfield he recorded a school teaching one hundred boys and seventy-nine girls. Larkfield was also the name of the residence he associated with J. O’Donnell, although his account does not identify the school’s founder or say that it occupied the house. The irrigation works and school offer separate glimpses of farming and education in the parish at that time. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Leitrim
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Coordinates
- 54.26843, -8.19702
- Mapped area
- 26.12 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1477 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloonlogher. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clonlogher or Cloonlogher, 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.