placenamesBoystown
Bailte Bhuí
Lewis recorded accommodation for a master and mistress alongside the parish’s hedge schools.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Bailte Bhuí · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Boystown · English · main form
Place & story
Teaching and accommodation
A schoolhouse in Boystown parish was built at the expense of Lieutenant-Colonel Smyth, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. It included apartments for both a master and a mistress, providing living accommodation as part of the educational building. Lewis also recorded eight hedge schools across the parish, attended by about 145 boys and 114 girls altogether. Those attendance figures belong to the hedge schools collectively; his account does not give a separate pupil total for Smyth’s schoolhouse. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.10282, -6.48391
- Mapped area
- 101.8 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2674 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Boystown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Boystown: 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.