placenamesClonelty
Cluain Eilte
Lewis described changes in farming alongside two kinds of schooling in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Eilte · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clonelty · English · main form
Place & story
Fields and schoolrooms
Samuel Lewis described the higher ground at Knockaderry being gradually brought into cultivation in his 1837 account of Clonelty parish. About half the parish was already under tillage, growing wheat, oats and potatoes, with meadow and pasture making up the remainder. At Knockaderry, a national school taught about fifty boys and twenty girls. A separate private school taught about thirty boys and twenty girls. These figures distinguish two institutions and their reported pupils; they do not establish the school buildings’ capacities or a single combined class. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonelty. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clonelty or Clonita, 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.