placenamesGaltrim
Galltroim
Lewis’s 1837 account records building activity and local school support in this Meath parish.
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
- Galltroim · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Galtrim · English · main form
Place & story
Buildings in the parish
Samuel Lewis recorded a quarry producing building stone at Cloneymeath in Galtrim parish in 1837. He dated Galtrim’s towered church to 1800 and the glebe house to 1815. The latter was assisted by a £300 loan and a £400 gift from the Board of First Fruits and had a nine-acre glebe. These figures concern assistance for the house, rather than a stated construction cost for the church. [2]
School support and a separate chapel
Lewis described a parochial school teaching about seventy children, supported partly by the vicar and W. Disney. He also noted a small private school. In the Catholic organisation of the period, Galtrim belonged to the Kilmore or Monalvey district, with a chapel at Boycetown-bridge. This wider religious grouping was distinct from the civil parish that his entry describes. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Deece Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.51192, -6.70511
- Mapped area
- 16.97 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1866 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Galtrim. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Galtrim or Gaultrim: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-08-20. How this page was prepared.