placenamesAthlone South
Baile Átha Luain Theas
Lewis’s 1837 account distinguishes Carrick’s national school from four fee-paying schools in the parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Átha Luain Theas · Irish · main form
- Athlone South · English · main form
Place & story
Schooling in Cam parish
Cam parish, in Athlone South, appears as Camma in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 dictionary. He recorded about 80 boys and 30 girls at the national school in Carrick. Four pay schools together taught about 160 boys and 70 girls. The account distinguishes a named national school from a larger combined group of fee-paying schools, with boys outnumbering girls in both sets of figures. These are parish school returns, rather than totals for the barony. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Athlone South. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Camma: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-03-26. How this page was prepared.