placenamesBunown
Bun Abhann
Lewis’s account distinguishes the dates and purposes of assistance in the Westmeath parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Bun Abhann · Irish · main form
- Bunown · English · main form
Place & story
A grant before the church
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Bunown parish in County Westmeath, written as Benowen or Bunnown, dates the parish church to 1822. A £600 Board of First Fruits gift towards it had been made in 1818. These are separate dates for financial assistance and construction. The glebe house received different support in 1829: a £415 gift and a £46 loan. [2]
Children at school
A school attended by six boys and eighteen girls received assistance from Lord Castlemaine and an annual contribution from the rector. A separate fee-paying school taught about twelve children. Lewis also recorded the older church’s ruins at the end of the Inner Lake, with Dillon family monuments; the account distinguishes that earlier site from the church erected in 1822. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Kilkenny West
- Coordinates
- 53.48866, -7.88014
- Mapped area
- 27.79 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2449 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Bunown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Benowen or Bunnown, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.