placenamesAdamstown
Maigh Arnaí
An early nineteenth-century account links parish education with land, patronage and the established church.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Maigh Arnaí · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Adamstown · English · main form
Place & story
A house and school on the glebe
Samuel Lewis recorded two glebes in Adamstown parish in 1837. Ten acres were held under the Earl of Rathdown, and their annual rent of £6 was paid to the parochial schoolmaster. The church, glebe house and school stood on this portion of land. Archdeacon Barton had built the glebe house in 1803 with assistance from the Board of First Fruits. [2]
Different kinds of schooling
The Earl of Rathdown and Archdeacon Barton also funded a new parochial schoolhouse with rooms for its master. Lewis counted about sixty boys and twenty girls there. Two private fee-paying schools taught roughly seventy more children, and the Protestant clergyman supervised a Sunday school. Together these institutions show several forms of education operating within the parish before the Great Famine. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Adamstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Adamstown or Murnevan — 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.