placenamesLickbla
Leic Bhlá
Carlanstown’s changing estate buildings and a supported school appear in Lewis’s parish account.
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
- Leic Bhlá · Irish · main form
- Lickbla · English · main form
Place & story
Buildings and patronage at Carlanstown
At Carlanstown in Lickbla parish, Samuel Lewis recorded the ruins of a mansion formerly belonging to a branch of the Nugent family. By 1837 the Duke of Buckingham had built a farmhouse on the old mansion’s site. The duke also supported a school at Carlanstown through an annual donation; Lewis estimated its attendance at about eighty children. The notices document both a change in the estate’s buildings and continuing financial support for local teaching. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lickbla. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lickbla — 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.