placenamesSlane Upper
Baile Shláine Uachtarach
Grangegeeth’s nineteenth-century classrooms form part of the barony’s educational history.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Baile Shláine Uachtarach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Sláine · Irish · main form
- Slane Upper · English · main form
Place & story
A schoolhouse and its ground
At Grangegeeth in Upper Slane, Samuel Lewis recorded a national school teaching about 110 children in 1837. Sir J. Witchett had provided its schoolhouse and an acre and a half of land. A separate private school had about 120 pupils. The two institutions show different forms of local provision within the same parish, with the national school receiving both a building and ground from a named benefactor. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Slane Upper. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Grangegeeth: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-27. How this page was prepared.