placenamesCastlerahan
Caisleán Raithin
Lewis recorded three different ways of supporting local schooling in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Caisleán Raithin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Castlerahan · English · main form
Place & story
Support for teaching
In Castlerahan parish, Samuel Lewis recorded a school at Clonkuffe endowed by the bishop with two acres of land and supported by subscriptions. The parochial school also relied on subscriptions, supplemented by £10 a year from the rector. A third school, at Ennagh, was supported by Miss Sankee. These three schools together taught about 160 boys and sixty girls in his 1837 account. Lewis listed four fee-paying schools separately, with approximately 220 boys and one hundred girls. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Coordinates
- 53.83487, -7.19178
- Mapped area
- 41.72 km²
- Logainm ID
- 371 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castlerahan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castlerahan parish: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-08-13. How this page was prepared.