placenamesTamlaght O'Crilly
Tamhlacht Uí Chroiligh
Lewis’s parish account records a charitable fund whose remaining capital supported twice-yearly distributions.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tamhlacht Uí Chroiligh · Irish · main form
- Tamlaght O'Crilly · English · main form
- Tamlaght · English · main form · local name
Place & story
A smaller fund still providing help
Samuel Lewis recorded that the Reverend Ralph Mansfield had left £100 for the parish’s poor roughly eighty years before his 1837 account. By then, only £50 of the capital remained; the interest was distributed twice a year. Lewis supplied neither an explanation for the reduction nor the amounts paid to individual recipients. The surviving fund nevertheless records an organised form of charitable assistance within Tamlaght O’Crilly, separate from its network of schools and church buildings. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Derry
- Barony
- Coleraine
- Barony
- Loughinsholin
- Coordinates
- 54.88400, -6.55075 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 2915 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tamlaght O'Crilly. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tamlaghtocrilly: 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.