placenamesGrangegeeth
Gráinseach na Gaoithe
Lewis attributed a local school’s building and grounds to Sir J. Witchett.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Gráinseach na Gaoithe · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Grangegeeth · English · main form
Place & story
Two schools in the parish
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account records a schoolhouse and an acre and a half of land given by Sir J. Witchett for a school at Grangegeeth. He described it as a national school with about 110 children. A separate private school taught about 120. These were two institutions, with their own pupil totals, rather than a single school of 230 children. Lewis does not supply a date for Witchett’s gift. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Slane Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.75591, -6.55575
- Mapped area
- 18.02 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1869 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Grangegeeth. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Grangegeeth in A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.