placenamesBruff
An Brú
Lewis’s parish account records several forms of education in the 1830s.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Brú · Irish · main form · validated name
- Bruff · English · main form
Place & story
Schools with different means of support
Bruff’s vicar established a parochial school in 1831 and remained its chief supporter when Samuel Lewis described the parish in 1837. It taught twenty boys and twenty girls. Two fee-paying schools together educated about two hundred children, while a separate school served adults. Lewis did not identify the adult school’s teacher or give its attendance. His account thus records education extending beyond childhood, alongside a small parochial school and a larger combined body of fee-paying pupils. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Bruff. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Bruff, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-05-28. How this page was prepared.