placenamesCastlerickard
Caisleán Riocaird
Lewis counted boys and girls at a school within the historical parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Caisleán Riocaird · Irish · main form
- Castlerickard · English · main form
Place & story
Schooling at Inchmore
Samuel Lewis recorded a hedge school at Inchmore in his 1837 account of Castlerickard. About fifty boys and forty girls attended it. The school belonged to a parish he described as lying chiefly in Meath but extending into County Kildare, beside the Boyne and the Edenderry–Trim road. Lewis named no teacher and supplied no opening date; the entry preserves a contemporary attendance estimate for this particular school. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Upper
- Barony
- Lune
- Coordinates
- 53.47897, -6.91942
- Mapped area
- 13.52 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1838 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castlerickard. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castle-Rickard, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-08-12. How this page was prepared.