placenamesCleenish and Islands
Claoininis
Cleenish’s nineteenth-century schools combined subscriptions, national provision and fees.
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
- Claoininis · Irish · main form
- Cleenish and Islands · English · main form
Place & story
A national school among parish schools
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account records a national school at Mullymeisker alongside two subscription-supported schools in Cleenish parish. Together these three taught about 200 boys and 130 girls. Sixteen fee-paying schools taught approximately 560 boys and 300 girls, and seven Sunday schools offered another form of instruction. These are totals for the historical parish network; the figures cannot be assigned to Mullymeisker’s national school alone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Magheraboy
- Barony
- Clanawley
- Barony
- Tirkennedy
- Coordinates
- 54.30981, -7.74650 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 134.18 km²
- Logainm ID
- 58922 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cleenish and Islands. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cleenish: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2022-03-10. How this page was prepared.