placenamesLorum
Leamhdhroim
Lewis recorded two different ways of supporting education in the 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
- Leamhdhroim · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Lorum · English · main form
Place & story
School support in 1837
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Lorum distinguished a parochial school, built and maintained through subscriptions, from a national school receiving £10 a year from Lord Beresford. About 160 children attended the national school. Lewis also noted a Sunday school. These details show different forms of support operating alongside one another: the annual payment belonged to the national school, while the subscription arrangement supported the parochial school. The figure of 160 was not a combined total for all three. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Idrone East
- Coordinates
- 52.65857, -6.92573
- Mapped area
- 21.77 km²
- Logainm ID
- 338 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lorum. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lorum: 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.