placenamesGirley
An Ghreallaigh
Lewis recorded a practical form of support for schooling in 1837.
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
- An Ghreallaigh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Girley · English · main form
Place & story
Buildings for education and worship
A private school in Girley parish taught about sixty children in 1837, according to Samuel Lewis, with its schoolhouse occupied without rent. He did not identify the person providing the premises. At Fordstown, he dated the Catholic chapel to 1800, distinguishing that working building from remains of the older parish church. Beyond these institutions, his account described grassland covering about two-thirds of the parish, with cultivated land, plantations and bog making up the wider landscape. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.66661, -6.92478
- Mapped area
- 22.2 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1868 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Girley. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Girley, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-10-24. How this page was prepared.