placenamesTomfinlough
Tuaim Fhionnlocha
Lewis distinguished an existing school supported by the Baptist society from a newly built schoolhouse intended for the National Board.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tuaim Fhionnlocha · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Tomfinlough · English · main form
Place & story
Two different forms of school support
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Tomfinlough account places Ballycar’s school under Major Colpoys’s patronage, assisted by a Baptist society grant. At Newmarket on Fergus, Sir Edward O’Brien had recently built a large schoolhouse and intended to support its school under the National Board of Education. Lewis described that proposed administrative arrangement as a future step. His account therefore records different sources of local educational support without showing that the new school had already entered the National Board system. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.76775, -8.86474
- Mapped area
- 27.48 km²
- Logainm ID
- 476 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tomfinlough. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tomfinloe, or Tomfinlogh — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.