placenamesLady's Island
Oileán Mhuire
Lewis’s 1837 entry describes the chapel before the later nineteenth-century church was opened.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Oileán Mhuire · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Lady's Island · English · main form
Place & story
A chapel recorded before 1864
Samuel Lewis described Lady’s Island’s Catholic chapel in 1837 as a large cruciform building rebuilt in 1807. A national school adjoined it, teaching about seventy children. This is the earlier building recorded by Lewis, rather than a construction date for the later Church of the Assumption. His account distinguished the chapel at Lady’s Island from another at Faithe, in Tacumshane parish, within the same wider Catholic district. He also recorded village fairs on 15 August and 8 September, without giving their foundation dates. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lady's Island. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mary’s (St.) or Lady’s Island, 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.