placenamesConry
Cónra
Lewis placed an August gathering, chapel and police station within the parish.
Recorded locationConry53.47764° N · 7.54926° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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
- Cónra · Irish · main form
- Conry · English · main form
Place & story
A gathering at Loughnavally
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Conry records a patron or fair at Loughnavally on 15 August. The same settlement had a police station and a Catholic chapel, while a separate pay school at Carna taught about twenty-five children. Lewis also noted remains of the old church at Conragh and castles at Tozerstown and Cronghill, describing several distinct sites within the parish rather than one village centre. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Rathconrath
- Coordinates
- 53.47764, -7.54926
- Mapped area
- 14.91 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2456 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Conry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Conragh or Conry, 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.