placenamesGernonstown
Baile an Ghearlánaigh
Lewis distinguished an anticipated change in school administration from education already taking place.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Ghearlánaigh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Gernonstown · English · main form
Place & story
Schools and roads west of Slane
Samuel Lewis recorded a Catholic chapel at Rushwee in Gernonstown parish in 1837. A Catholic school was about to come under the new Board of Education, while a private school taught about fifty children. The proposed change therefore concerned one institution, and the pupil count another. He described Tankardstown as Mrs Hopkins’s residence, set among extensive grounds and plantations, and named Rochestown as J. Blakeney’s residence. The Dublin–Londonderry mail-coach road ran along the parish’s eastern edge. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Slane Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.73024, -6.60580
- Mapped area
- 12.16 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1867 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Gernonstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Gernonstown, Upper Slane, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-09-23. How this page was prepared.