placenamesAghagower
Achadh Ghobhair
Lewis listed six school locations separately from Carranmore’s hedge school.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Achadh Ghobhair · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Aghagower · English · main form
Place & story
Seven places of teaching
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Aghagower account names schools at Ayle, Ardygommon, Cushinkeel, Aughagower, Triangle and Lanmore. Together these six schools taught about 700 children. He separately recorded a hedge school at Carranmore with fifty boys and forty girls. The distinction preserves both the spread of teaching across the parish and the different scale of that additional classroom, within a district which Lewis described as predominantly mountainous. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Barony
- Murrisk
- Coordinates
- 53.74639, -9.51043 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 222.83 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1750 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aghagower. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aughagower, Mayo: 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.