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Barony

Costello

Coistealaigh

An 1837 account records school endowments in a parish extending into this Roscommon barony.

Recorded locationCostello53.92272° N · 8.59742° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

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

  • Coistealaigh · Irish · main form
  • Costello · English · main form

Place & story

Brusna and Aughalustra

Castlemore parish extends into both Costello and Frenchpark baronies. Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account lists the historical parish under County Mayo and names national schools at Brusna and Aughalustra. Lord Dillon gave four acres to endow the Brusna school. Together the two schools taught about 100 boys and 100 girls; a separate pay school had about 50 boys and 30 girls. These figures concern the wider historical parish, rather than pupils counted solely within today’s Roscommon portion of Costello. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Barony
County
Roscommon
Coordinates
53.92272, -8.59742
Logainm ID
222 ↗

Sources & further reading

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

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-02-07. How this page was prepared.