placenamesFaughalstown
Fochla
Lewis recorded a bequest helping to support a school at Dernagaragh.
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
- Fochla · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Faughalstown · English · main form
Place & story
A school supported by a bequest
At Dernagaragh in Faughalstown parish, Samuel Lewis recorded a school aided by a bequest from the late Colonel Monk. Forty-six boys and twenty-four girls attended it in his 1837 account. He separately listed three private schools teaching seventy-six boys and forty-eight girls in total. The bequest therefore belongs to the Dernagaragh school, rather than to all four establishments. Lewis gave neither its amount nor the colonel’s full name. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Faughalstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Faughley or Faughanstown, 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.