placenamesCalry
Calraí
Lewis recorded several sources of school support across the parish in 1837.
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
- Calraí · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Calry · English · main form
Place & story
A building paid for by its patron
John Wynne paid £250 to build a school at Ballin in Calry parish and continued to support it, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. His account also identifies a school maintained by Erasmus Smith’s charity and a female parochial school at Calry. About 120 boys and seventy girls attended these schools collectively. A separate private school taught roughly fifty boys and thirty girls. The named patrons and institutions show several forms of educational provision operating within the parish at the same time. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Calry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Calry or Colry: 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.