placenamesWhitechurch
An Teampall Geal
Lewis records local education and a mill supplied by water from Cappagh’s lake.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Teampall Geal · Irish · main form · validated name
- Whitechurch · English · main form
Place & story
J. Musgrave’s school support
About ninety children attended the parochial school at Ballyntaylor in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Whitechurch account. J. Musgrave supported it. Lewis also listed two private schools teaching about 130 children collectively. These were institutions within the Waterford parish, distinct from the several other Irish parishes called Whitechurch. [2]
Water turning a mill
At Cappagh, Lewis described a stream leaving a lake and turning a mill before passing underground for nearly two miles. He recorded its emergence at Canty and subsequent entry into the River Brickey. This is the watercourse described in his historical survey, rather than a newly established survey of the underground route. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Decies-without-Drum
- Coordinates
- 52.11021, -7.74865
- Mapped area
- 40.6 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2430 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Whitechurch. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Whitechurch, 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.