placenamesMonasteroris
Mainistir Fheorais
Lewis recorded educational support from the rector, a marchioness and Mrs Murray.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Mainistir Fheorais · Irish · main form · validated name
- Monasteroris · English · main form
Place & story
Two supported schools and five private schools
Samuel Lewis recorded two schools in Monasteroris parish receiving subscriptions from the rector, the Marchioness of Downshire and Mrs Murray in 1837. Together they taught 30 boys and 47 girls. Five private schools educated approximately 100 boys and 60 girls separately. The figures describe two groups of schools, rather than the attendance at a single institution. Lewis did not state how much each subscriber contributed. His entry also uses the parish name Castropetre, helping distinguish this educational account from statistics for Edenderry town alone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Offaly
- Barony
- Coolestown
- Coordinates
- 53.31177, -7.11536
- Mapped area
- 59.44 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2037 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Monasteroris. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castropetre, or Monasteroris — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-02-19. How this page was prepared.