placenamesCastleventry
Caisleán na Gaoithe
Lewis recorded school patronage and a separate grant towards the parish church.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Caisleán na Gaoithe · Irish · main form · validated name
- Castleventry · English · main form
Place & story
Land supporting education
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Castleventry parish in County Cork identifies parochial schools for boys and girls at Saroo. They were supported by the Cork Diocesan Association, the vicar and J. S. Townsend. Townsend endowed the schools with an acre of land. Lewis did not give an attendance figure, identify the teachers or state when the schools opened. [2]
A church grant without a glebe
The parish church was a large building in the Early English style with a tall square tower. The Board of First Fruits had contributed a £900 gift towards it, although Lewis supplied neither a construction year nor the total cost. He recorded no glebe house or glebe. The schools’ acre was therefore a distinct educational endowment in his description. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (W.D.)
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Coordinates
- 51.62860, -8.99885
- Mapped area
- 19.28 km²
- Logainm ID
- 541 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castleventry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castleventry: 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.