placenamesArdnageehy
Ard na Gaoithe
Lewis records different forms of school support around Glenville alongside a small industrial enterprise.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ard na Gaoithe · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ardnageehy · English · main form
Place & story
Schools supported by rector and proprietor
Samuel Lewis recorded an estate school at Glenville whose proprietor had built its schoolhouse in 1821. It admitted boys and girls. The rector chiefly supported separate parochial male and female schools, and about two hundred children attended these schools together. Six hedge schools taught approximately three hundred more; Lewis also listed a Sunday school in 1837. [2]
Paper and roofing materials
A small paper mill worked at Glenville when Lewis described Ardnageehy parish. Elsewhere in the parish, coarse slate was quarried for roofing and flagstones were plentiful, although he reported neither stone resource being worked extensively. The account records several kinds of local production without supplying the paper mill’s owner or output. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ardnageehy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ardnageehy: 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.