placenamesBarragh
Beirreach
Lewis records two kinds of educational patronage and an attributed connection with Aileen Aroon.
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
- Beirreach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Barragh · English · main form
Place & story
A grant for the national school
Samuel Lewis recorded about 120 boys and 100 girls attending a national school in Barragh parish in 1837. The Board of Education supported it with £20 annually. Another school was supported by Mr Keogh, while three hedge schools taught approximately 130 boys and 100 girls. The account keeps the national-school pupils separate from those attending the hedge schools. [2]
Aileen Aroon and Clonmullen
Lewis recorded a tradition that Clonmullen had been the residence of Ellen Kavanagh, whom he identified as the heroine of the Irish ballad Aileen Aroon. His account presents the residence as something said about the place; it does not establish the story as verified biography. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Forth
- Barony
- Saint Mullin's Upper
- Coordinates
- 52.67338, -6.71494
- Mapped area
- 53.82 km²
- Logainm ID
- 319 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Barragh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Barragh: 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.