placenamesCalary
Ceallúrach
Lewis’s 1837 account connects the upland district with new roads and local services.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Ceallúrach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Calary · English · main form
Place & story
A district crossed by new roads
Samuel Lewis described Calary in 1837 as a district parish formed in 1831 from parts of Kilmacanogue, Kilcoole, Derralossory, Newcastle and Powerscourt. His account places it across the uplands south of the Great Sugar Loaf towards Roundwood. Both the new Bray–Roundwood road and the Long Hill road from Enniskerry crossed the parish. He reported that the latter had fallen into less use because a connecting branch provided access to the newer route, where Major Beresford had built a hotel. [2]
Land supporting a school
The Earl of Rathdown supported the parochial school by allowing a few acres to be used rent-free for its benefit. Lewis also recorded a school at Ballinastoe: together the two schools taught about fifty boys and seventy girls. A Sunday school was separately mentioned, while Ballinastoe had recently acquired a dispensary. These details describe the services of the wider historical district rather than a single settlement at the parish’s mapped point. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Barony
- Ballinacor North
- Coordinates
- 53.11644, -6.21980
- Mapped area
- 79.22 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2677 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Calary. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Calary — 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.