placenamesAghanloo
Áth Lú
Lewis recorded teaching at three named places and a parish school temporarily out of use.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Áth Lú · Irish · main form
- Aghanloo · English · main form
Place & story
Education across the parish
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account names schools at Lisnagrib, Stradragh and Ballycarton, attended by about 140 boys and 90 girls altogether. He separately recorded a private school with about eleven boys and seven girls. The rector-supported parochial school was then discontinued while a new schoolhouse was being built at the expense of the Marquess of Waterford. That describes work in progress, rather than a completed building or a permanent end to the parish school. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aghanloo. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aghanloo: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-08-23. How this page was prepared.