placenamesInch Saint Lawrence
Inse Shan Labhráis
Lewis placed schooling close to the chapel and a burial ground with a well.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Inse Shan Labhráis · Irish · main form · validated name
- Inch Saint Lawrence · English · main form
Place & story
A cluster of parish places
About 110 children attended the national school adjoining the Catholic chapel in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of the parish he called Isertlaurence or Isaint-Laurence. Near the chapel was a burial ground containing a well dedicated to Saint Laurence, which he described as much visited. The account links three distinct places—the school, chapel and burial ground—without saying that the well stood inside the chapel or school grounds. Lewis gave no particular festival date, healing tradition or foundation date for the school. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Coordinates
- 52.58203, -8.50343
- Mapped area
- 8.74 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1549 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Inch Saint Lawrence. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Isertlaurence or Isaint-Laurence: 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.