placenamesCastletown
Baile an Chaisleáin
Lewis recorded the funding of a clerical residence and a small school at Castletown-Cross.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Chaisleáin · Irish · main form
- Castletown · English · main form
Place & story
The glebe house and school
Samuel Lewis dated the erection of Castletown-Kilpatrick’s glebe house to 1824 and recorded a Board of First Fruits loan of £1,107 13s. 10d. towards it. The house stood close to the church, with a glebe of forty-three plantation acres. His 1837 account also identified a school at Castletown-Cross supported by the incumbent, attended by about six boys and three girls. The loan concerned the residence; Lewis reported the school’s support separately. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Morgallion
- Coordinates
- 53.79440, -6.72041
- Mapped area
- 16.46 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1938 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castletown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castletown-Kilpatrick, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-10-17. How this page was prepared.