placenamesCloydagh
Clóideach
Lewis distinguished several kinds of teaching across the historical parish.
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
- Clóideach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Cloydagh · English · main form
Place & story
Schools recorded in 1837
Samuel Lewis described a school in the chapel yard at Ballinabranna as well as Cloydagh’s parochial school in 1837. Together those two schools taught about a hundred and fifty children; he did not give separate totals. A hedge school educated about ninety more. His account covered the historical parish across Carlow and Queen’s County, now Laois. The figures therefore describe that wider area’s schools, while the named chapel-yard site gives one specific location for teaching within the district. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Carlow
- Barony
- Idrone West
- Coordinates
- 52.79589, -6.97635
- Mapped area
- 17.04 km²
- Logainm ID
- 323 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cloydagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cloydagh or Clody, 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.