placenamesCannaway
Ceann Mhaí
Lewis recorded a church-building grant and local support for schooling.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ceann Mhaí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cannaway · English · main form
Place & story
The church above Killinardrish
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Cannaway parish in County Cork places its church on a high hill about a mile and a half west of Killinardrish. It was a plain building with a tall square tower. The Board of First Fruits had provided a £600 gift towards its erection in 1814; Lewis did not present that grant as the complete building cost. [2]
Land and the vicar’s support
Although there was a glebe of about five acres, Lewis recorded no glebe house. The vicar was the chief supporter of both the parochial school for boys and girls and a Sunday school. Elsewhere in the parish, Barnateampul had a Catholic chapel. These were separate institutions in the account, without a stated school attendance or teachers’ names. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Coordinates
- 51.88151, -8.84398
- Mapped area
- 21.13 km²
- Logainm ID
- 530 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cannaway. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cannaway or Cannaboy: 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.