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Barony

Bunratty Upper

Bun Raite Uachtarach

Mrs Craven provided the house used by a parish school recorded in 1837.

Recorded locationBunratty Upper52.89161° N · 8.87669° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

bun(river-)mouth, bottom(-land)

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Bun Raite Uachtarach · Irish · main form
  • Bunratty Upper · English · main form

Place & story

Support through a schoolhouse

In Templemaley parish, Samuel Lewis recorded about sixty children attending a school housed rent-free through Mrs Craven’s generosity. His 1837 account identifies the provision of premises without rent, but gives no date for the building. The parish lay north of Ennis and was unusually narrow: Lewis described it as nearly five miles long but only about a mile wide. The school belongs to this particular parish account, rather than a survey of schooling throughout Bunratty Upper. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Barony
County
Clare
Coordinates
52.89161, -8.87669
Mapped area
218.17 km²
Logainm ID
21 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Bunratty Upper. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Templemaly: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-12-21. How this page was prepared.