placenamesMothel
Maothail
Lewis recorded a school funded by parishioners and another provided by Henry Winston Barron.
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
- Maothail · Irish · main form · validated name
- Mothel · English · main form
Place & story
Paying for premises
Samuel Lewis placed Mothel’s parochial school at Clonea in his 1837 account. Its schoolhouse had been built at the expense of the parishioners. He separately listed three private schools, one occupying a schoolhouse built at Henry Winston Barron’s expense. These were distinct contributions towards school buildings: Lewis did not give their construction dates or costs. The record adds a small educational history to a parish better known for its abbey remains and the fortified residence at Clonea. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Glenahiry
- Barony
- Upperthird
- Coordinates
- 52.27951, -7.44762
- Mapped area
- 84.08 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2416 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Mothel. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mothell or Moathill, Waterford: 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.