placenamesCaherconlish
Cathair Chinn Lis
Lewis recorded estate support for both a school building and its continuing teaching work.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cathair Chinn Lis · Irish · main form · validated name
- Caherconlish · English · main form
Place & story
School provision in 1837
The Wilson family built the schoolhouse serving Caherconlish’s male and female parochial schools, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. They also contributed towards the schools’ continuing support, although he supplied no sum for those payments. About ninety boys and ninety girls received instruction. Lewis described the schoolhouse as a substantial building and separately noted another school at Inch Saint Lawrence. The figures belong to the parochial schools he identified, rather than a complete count of children across the wider Catholic parish district. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Coordinates
- 52.59744, -8.45485
- Mapped area
- 33.2 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1514 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Caherconlish. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cahirconlish: 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.