placenamesGrange of Nilteen
Lewis’s account distinguishes fee-paying schools from Sunday teaching.
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
- Grange of Nilteen · English · main form
Place & story
Schooling within the grange
Three pay schools operated within the Grange of Nilteen when Samuel Lewis described it in 1837. Together they taught about sixty-five boys and forty girls; those figures cover the three schools collectively. A Sunday school was recorded separately, without a pupil total. Lewis placed the grange on the Six-mile Water and included it among the four divisions of the ecclesiastical union of Donegore. His account records local teaching provision without naming the schools or their teachers. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Antrim Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.69868, -6.13846 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 61270 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Grange of Nilteen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Nilteen, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.