placenamesClonpriest
Cluain Pruachais
Lewis linked the parish’s farming economy with the Cork market and recorded two distinct schools.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Pruachais · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clonpriest · English · main form
Place & story
Marsh pasture and market produce
Clonpriest’s low-lying marsh supported cattle grazing in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account, while other ground was cultivated. The parish produced substantial quantities of butter for the Cork market, and its bog supplied fuel. Lewis also recorded limestone, brown building stone and slate quarries. His description joins farming and local extraction without giving production totals. [2]
A donation-supported school
Lord Ponsonby made an annual donation towards a school with about 140 children. Lewis distinguished it from a private pay school attended by about eighty children. He did not specify the amount of the donation or identify it as the school’s entire income. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonpriest. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clonpriest: 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.