placenamesSaint Munchin's
Paróiste Mhainchín
Lewis recorded accommodation for widows alongside classrooms near the parish church.
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
- Paróiste Mhainchín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Saint Munchin's · English · main form
Place & story
An endowment put into buildings
Mrs Hannah Villiers endowed almshouses and schools near Saint Munchin’s church in Limerick, which her trustees erected in 1826. Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes apartments for twelve poor widows, each receiving twenty-four Irish pounds annually, and two schoolrooms. The master received thirty pounds a year and the mistress twenty-five. The trustees were also preparing an orphan school for twenty Protestant girls under a Chancery decree. Lewis presents that further school as a plan, distinct from the accommodation and classrooms already provided. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- North Liberties
- Coordinates
- 52.71585, -8.66821
- Mapped area
- 18.6 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1645 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Saint Munchin's. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Munchin (St.), 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.