placenamesRathgormuck
Ráth Ó gCormaic
Lewis’s parish account records a small supported school and two fee-paying schools.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Ó gCormaic · Irish · main form · validated name
- Rathgormuck · English · main form
Place & story
Education before the later village schools
Samuel Lewis reported in 1837 that Lady Osborne gave annual support to a school in Rathgormuck with about ten children. He did not state the donation’s amount. Two private schools together taught about 130 children. His account identifies a patron and a different scale of enrolment, but does not name the schools or establish a connection with the village’s later national-school buildings. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Upperthird
- Barony
- Glenahiry
- Coordinates
- 52.29992, -7.54689
- Mapped area
- 62.67 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2418 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathgormuck. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rathgormuck: 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.