placenamesErrigal
Aireagal
Lewis records public, Methodist and fee-paying schooling in the parish around Garvagh.
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
- Aireagal · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Errigal · English · main form
Place & story
Different forms of school support
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account names several supporters of Errigal’s public schools: Lord Garvagh, R. McCausland, Mrs. Heyland, the rector and the Ironmongers’ Company. He attributes about 400 pupils to the public-school group, without assigning that total to a single school or donor. He separately identifies a school founded by Dr. Adam Clarke and supported by Wesleyan Methodists. Four private schools taught about 120 children. The figures describe distinct groups of schools within the parish, rather than a census of all its children. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Errigal. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Errigal, Coleraine: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-07-26. How this page was prepared.