placenamesAghern
Áth Cairn
An acre endowed by the Duke of Devonshire supported local schooling.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Áth Cairn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Aghern · English · main form
Place & story
Several forms of education
The Duke of Devonshire endowed Aghern’s parochial school with an acre of land, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. About twenty boys and twenty girls attended. Lewis separately recorded a Sunday school and two hedge schools; the latter together taught about eighty boys and forty girls. The hedge-school figures concern those two schools, rather than the parochial school or all local education combined. His account places these institutions in the Bride valley parish near a three-arched stone bridge, on the mail-car road between Rathcormac and Castlemartyr. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Kinnatalloon
- Coordinates
- 52.06783, -8.15201
- Mapped area
- 13.26 km²
- Logainm ID
- 496 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aghern. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aghern or Ahern: 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.