placenamesAbbeystrowry
Mainistir na Sruthrach
Lewis recorded a rural economy around Skibbereen alongside school buildings erected before the Great Famine.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Mainistir na Sruthrach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Abbeystrowry · English · main form
Place & story
Stone and fuel in 1837
Samuel Lewis recorded slate quarries at Derrygoole in Abbeystrowry parish in 1837, although they were little worked. Clay-slate elsewhere supplied building stone and material for road repairs. He distinguished rocky waste ground from the parish’s relatively limited bog, noting that peat fuel was becoming scarce. [2]
Two phases of school building
The vicar paid for boys’ and girls’ parochial schools near the church in Skibbereen in 1825. Lewis separately recorded an infants’ school built in 1835 and maintained by subscription. The construction dates and sources of support belong to these distinct educational provisions. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery West (E.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.56335, -9.27143
- Mapped area
- 38.09 km²
- Logainm ID
- 491 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Abbeystrowry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Abbeystrowry: 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.