placenamesSaint Mary's Enniscorthy
Paróiste Mhuire
Lewis distinguished endowed parochial schools from schools maintained by subscribers.
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
- Paróiste Mhuire · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Saint Mary's Enniscorthy · English · main form
Place & story
Education in the 1837 account
In his account of Saint Mary’s parish and Enniscorthy, Samuel Lewis recorded boys’ and girls’ parochial school buildings erected on the glebe in 1831. They received £52 from Erasmus Smith’s charity and £20 from Lord Portsmouth’s trustees. Separately, subscribers supported a girls’ school supervised without payment by Presentation nuns, a Lancasterian boys’ school and an infants’ school established in 1831. His total of about 550 children concerned the parish’s public schools collectively. Eleven private schools, teaching about 420 children between them, formed a separate group. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Coordinates
- 52.51710, -6.56685
- Mapped area
- 12.11 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2974 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Saint Mary's Enniscorthy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Enniscorthy, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.