placenamesLeyny
Luíne
Lewis recorded a small network of schools and Major O’Hara’s annual contributions 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
- Luíne · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Leyny · English · main form
Place & story
Four schools with a local benefactor
In Killoran parish, within Leyny barony, Samuel Lewis recorded four public schools educating about 320 children in 1837. Major O’Hara contributed £16 annually to one school and £2 to each of the other three. Lewis also counted about 110 children in two private schools, alongside two Sunday schools. His account records both the scale of parish schooling and the unequal distribution of one benefactor’s support; the figures describe Killoran, rather than the whole barony. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Leyny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killoran: 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.