placenamesMoyashel and Magheradernon
Maigh Asail agus Machaire Ó dTiarnáin
Lewis recorded a schoolhouse and land supplied by the Levinge estate.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Maigh Asail agus Machaire Ó dTiarnáin · Irish · main form
- Moyashel and Magheradernon · English · main form
Place & story
A house and an acre and a half
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Rathconnell account records Sir R. Levinge’s endowment of the parochial school at Knockdrin. He provided a house costing £350 and an acre and a half of land. About ten children were taught there when Lewis wrote. A separate school at Reynella had cost £200 to build. These small institutions formed part of the educational provision of a parish extending beyond Mullingar’s town schools. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Moyashel and Magheradernon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rathconnell or Turin: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-02-07. How this page was prepared.