placenamesNobber
An Obair
Lewis distinguished an operating fair from an unused market patent 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 Obair · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Nobber · English · main form
Place & story
A fair without a weekly market
Nobber possessed a market patent, but Samuel Lewis reported that the market was not held. Its fair on 25 April was well attended, trading in cattle and pigs. His 1837 description thus separates the legal right to hold a market from trading that actually took place, without giving livestock sales or attendance totals. [2]
A master paid in guineas
Lord Gormanston built a town schoolhouse mainly for children of his tenants and allowed its master twenty guineas annually. Lewis recorded average attendance of 120 boys and girls together. A separate hedge school at Possextown taught about thirty boys and twenty girls. The figures distinguish average attendance at the estate-supported school from the approximate pupil counts at Possextown. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Morgallion
- Barony
- Kells Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.82898, -6.75853
- Mapped area
- 42.12 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1907 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Nobber. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Nobber — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-05-18. How this page was prepared.