placenamesSaint Peter's
Paróiste Pheadair
Lewis recorded a reduction in pupils and apprenticeship payments on the western side of the town.
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
- Paróiste Pheadair · Irish · main form
- Saint Peter's · English · main form
Place & story
A school within Saint Peter’s
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Athlone places Saint Peter’s parish on the western side of the town. He located the Ranelagh school there, recording provision for boys’ maintenance, instruction, clothing and apprenticeship. Following Lady Catherine Jones’s death without issue in 1740, the estates supporting the scheme had passed about twenty years later to the Incorporated Society for promoting charter schools. [2]
Fewer pupils and a smaller payment
The school’s pupil limit had been forty boys, with £10 paid when each was apprenticed. By Lewis’s account its income had fallen considerably: no more than fifteen boys remained, and the apprenticeship payment was £7. These were payments associated with placing individual boys in apprenticeships, rather than annual fees paid by pupils. Lewis also listed separate boys’ and girls’ schools and a Sunday school within Saint Peter’s parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Roscommon
- Barony
- Athlone South
- Coordinates
- 53.40589, -7.98022
- Logainm ID
- 2096 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Saint Peter's. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Athlone, description of: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.