placenamesTamlaght Finlagan
Tamhlacht Fhionnlagáin
Lewis’s 1837 parish description records an 1832 building project alongside a wider school network.
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
- Tamhlacht Fhionnlagáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Tamlaght Finlagan · English · main form
Place & story
The Tamlaght schools of 1832
Samuel Lewis recorded that the rector built male and female parochial schools at Tamlaght in 1832 and continued to support them. His account also listed schools associated with the Fishmongers’ Company, the London Hibernian Society and the Kildare-place Society across the historical parish. [2]
Numbers across a wider network
The schools in that network collectively taught about 500 children in Lewis’s 1837 description. Ten private schools separately taught approximately 300 boys and 230 girls. These are historical parish-wide figures, rather than an attendance total for the two Tamlaght schools alone. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tamlaght Finlagan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tamlaghtfinlagan: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-04-28. How this page was prepared.