placenamesClonlisk
Cluain Leisc
Lewis described how a school fund helped pay for the Parke schoolhouse in Templeharry parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Leisc · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clonlisk · English · main form
Place & story
Rooms for teaching and living
The parochial schools at Parke in Templeharry parish taught about eighty children in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Private subscriptions supported their work. Their slated schoolhouse, which included accommodation for a master and mistress, had cost £150 to erect; £100 came from the Lord-Lieutenant’s school fund. Lewis described Templeharry as lying chiefly in Clonlisk but extending into Ikerrin, so these are parish-level details rather than totals for the Offaly barony. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonlisk. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Templeharry: 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.