placenamesArdclinis
Ard Claoininse
Lewis records movement across steep ground and a school funded by F. Turnley.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ard Claoininse · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ardclinis · English · main form
Place & story
Fuel on the mountain paths
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description places Ardclinis’s inhabited and cultivated land in a coastal strip extending into Glenariff. Steep mountain slopes rose inland, crossed by narrow paths. Inhabitants used slide carts to carry fuel along these routes. His account links a particular form of transport with the constraints of the parish’s terrain. [2]
Drumnasole school in 1833
F. Turnley paid £1,000 to erect a large schoolhouse at Drumnasole and supported it entirely until 1833, when management passed to the National Board of Education. Lewis also recorded Church of Ireland services in its schoolroom. The building thus combined educational and religious use during a change in its administration. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Glenarm Lower
- Coordinates
- 55.01518, -5.98307 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 63.21 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61310 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ardclinis. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ardclinis: 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.