placenamesCastletownarra
Baile an Chaisleáin
Lewis distinguishes building finance from the support and attendance of parish schools.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Chaisleáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Castletownarra · English · main form
Place & story
Building the glebe-house in 1820
Samuel Lewis recorded that Castletownarra’s glebe-house was built in 1820 with help from the Board of First Fruits. Its assistance comprised a £250 gift and a £550 loan. His account places the parish church on the edge of Lough Derg, but does not assign the glebe-house’s construction date to that church. [2]
The rector’s school and a pay school
In 1837 the rector supported a parochial school teaching about fifty boys and thirty girls. Lewis recorded a separate pay school with approximately 120 boys and seventy girls. These were two different institutions, each with its own reported attendance. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Owney and Arra
- Coordinates
- 52.86939, -8.36335
- Mapped area
- 37.61 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2169 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castletownarra. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castletown-Arra: 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.