placenamesCamus
Camas
Lewis recorded different educational arrangements across the Tyrone parish.
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
- Camas · Irish · main form
- Camus · English · main form
Place & story
Rooms, land and salaries
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Camus parish in County Tyrone, called Camus-juxta-Morne, records a parochial school on the Bierney glebe supported by Erasmus Smith’s trustees. Its master had a rent-free home and two acres of land. At Milltown, the Marquess of Abercorn had erected a school for girls and boys, with separate accommodation for the master and mistress. Each teacher received £20 annually from the Marquess. [2]
A changed charitable purpose
Before 1829 a blue-coat school had an annual income of £30. By the time Lewis wrote, that money was being used to clothe twelve boys. The account distinguishes a former school from the later application of its income. Across the parish’s schools Lewis counted about 160 boys and one hundred girls, without allocating those totals to individual institutions. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Strabane Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.81963, -7.47102 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 30.38 km²
- Logainm ID
- 63190 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Camus. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Camus-juxta-Morne, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2007-12-18. How this page was prepared.