placenamesSliguff
Slí Dhubh
Lewis’s Carlow parish account records teaching, worship and stock fairs.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Slí Dhubh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Sliguff · English · main form
Place & story
Teaching in two places
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Sliguff parish in County Carlow records a national school at Killoughternane and a school at Ballinree endowed by Miss Newton. About 150 children attended the two schools together. Lewis did not give separate totals or identify Miss Newton more fully. [2]
Worship and fairs
Sunday worship took place in a schoolhouse within the parish, while the older church stood in ruins in its burial ground above the Barrow. Lewis did not identify the schoolhouse used for services as either of the two named schools. He also recorded fairs for general farming stock on 12 February and 1 November. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Idrone East
- Coordinates
- 52.65976, -6.89835
- Mapped area
- 27.29 km²
- Logainm ID
- 345 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Sliguff. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Slyguff, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-07-01. How this page was prepared.