placenamesBrinny
Bruíonaigh
Lewis distinguished the rector’s school from a subscription-supported school.
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
- Bruíonaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Brinny · English · main form
Place & story
Schooling in Lewis’s historical parish
Samuel Lewis’s account of Brinny in 1837 described a historical parish extending across three Cork baronies. Its parochial school taught twenty-seven boys and eighteen girls, with the rector providing most of its support. He also supervised a Sunday school. Another school taught fifty-eight boys and thirty girls and depended on subscriptions, supplemented by three pounds a year from the Catholic parish priest. His figures distinguish two schools with different sources of support. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Kinalmeaky
- Barony
- Carbery East (E.D.)
- Barony
- Kinalea
- Coordinates
- 51.78707, -8.71800
- Mapped area
- 19.91 km²
- Logainm ID
- 525 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Brinny. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Brinny, 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.