placenamesMunterconnaught
Muintir Chonnacht
Lewis records building assistance in 1832 and the parish’s education provision before the Famine.
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
- Muintir Chonnacht · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Munterconnaught · English · main form
Place & story
The church built in 1832
Munterconnaught’s Church of Ireland church was erected in 1832 with a £900 gift from the Board of First Fruits, according to Samuel Lewis. His 1837 account places the rectory and vicarage within the union of Lurgan. He separately described the Catholic chapel as a stone building, without giving its construction date. [2]
Schooling supported by subscriptions
About 140 children attended a school aided by subscriptions in 1837. Three private schools together taught approximately 160 children. Lewis recorded those two groups separately but did not identify the schools’ teachers or individual locations. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Coordinates
- 53.78828, -7.08206
- Mapped area
- 30.16 km²
- Logainm ID
- 393 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Munterconnaught. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Munterconnaught: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-03. How this page was prepared.