placenamesOola
Úlla
Lewis recorded religious services in several places, including the Lloyd-supported parish school.
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
- Úlla · Irish · main form · validated name
- Oola · English · main form
Place & story
Teaching and worship in shared premises
Oola’s parochial schoolhouse served about fifty children in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. The Lloyd family and other supporters maintained it, and services were also held there. Lewis separately recorded worship at Castle Lloyd and parishioners attending the church at Cullen, whose curate performed occasional duties for Oola. These arrangements show how worship extended beyond a dedicated local church building. The schoolhouse stood near the Catholic chapel, but Lewis did not identify the two institutions as sharing premises. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Oola. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Oolla or Ulloe: 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.