placenamesTemple-etney
Teampall Eithne
Lewis recorded a building cost and the principal donation towards it in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Teampall Eithne · Irish · main form · validated name
- Temple-etney · English · main form
Place & story
A schoolhouse costing fifteen hundred pounds
Samuel Lewis recorded about one hundred and fifty children attending a public school in Temple-etney parish in 1837. Its schoolhouse had cost fifteen hundred pounds, of which the Marquess of Ormonde contributed eleven hundred pounds. The donation therefore formed part of the building cost; Lewis did not identify it as an annual payment or give the remaining contributors’ names. His entry, headed Templethay, also mentioned three private schools without supplying their pupil numbers, so the public school’s attendance should not be treated as the parish’s total. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa East
- Coordinates
- 52.39874, -7.58809
- Mapped area
- 26.97 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2337 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Temple-etney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Templethay or Temple Etny, 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.