placenamesHoretown
Baile an Hóraigh
An 1837 account records a repair grant and several local schools.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Hóraigh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Horetown · English · main form
Place & story
A church within the estate grounds
Samuel Lewis placed Horetown’s church within the demesne of Horetown in 1837. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners had recently provided a grant of one hundred and eight pounds for repairs. This payment concerned an existing church, rather than the cost of building it. He also recorded three private schools teaching about two hundred and thirty boys between them, alongside a Sunday school. The entry locates these institutions in a parish on the old New Ross–Wexford road, southwest of Taghmon. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Shelmaliere West
- Coordinates
- 52.32851, -6.72231
- Mapped area
- 16.14 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2550 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Horetown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Horetown, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-07-31. How this page was prepared.