placenamesCurrin
Coirrín
Lewis’s account describes teaching across several localities in the wider cross-county parish.
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
- Coirrín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Currin · English · main form
Place & story
Schools beyond one village
Samuel Lewis listed schools at Scotshouse, Tattenaghcake, Carnagarry, Aghrea, Mockla, Carne, Laurel Hill, Killefargy and Drum in his 1837 Currin account. Together they taught about 530 boys and 330 girls. He separately counted three private schools with about forty boys and twenty girls, and six Sunday schools. The figures concern the historical parish, chiefly in Monaghan but extending into Fermanagh; they describe a dispersed network rather than the enrolment of a single school or just one county’s portion. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Currin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Currin: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.