placenamesTireragh
Tír Fhiachrach
Lewis recorded Colonel Irwin’s support for education at Killenduff in Easkey parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tír Fhiachrach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Tireragh · English · main form
Place & story
A building and three acres
At Killenduff in Easkey parish, Colonel Irwin supported a school, built its schoolhouse and endowed it with three acres of land, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Lewis also recorded about 600 children in five public schools across the parish. That total describes the wider school network, not attendance at Killenduff alone. The land endowment adds a concrete example of how local education was supported within Tireragh. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tireragh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Easkey: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.