placenamesRoss
Ros
Lewis distinguished capital left for poor relief from an annual payment helping Sunday-school pupils enter trades.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Ros · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ross · English · main form
Place & story
Different forms of assistance
The Rev. S. Jervois left £400 in 1786, with the interest distributed annually among the Protestant poor, according to Samuel Lewis’s account of Ross parish. Lewis also recorded a separate £10 annual payment for apprenticeship fees for the Sunday school’s most deserving boy and girl. By 1837 the Rev. T. Hoare, the vicar choral, had given £500 by deed, its interest supporting the parish’s most needy poor. The account distinguishes invested charitable funds from the annual payment supporting apprenticeships. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (W.D.)
- Barony
- Ibane and Barryroe
- Coordinates
- 51.59370, -9.03192 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 54.37 km²
- Logainm ID
- 677 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ross. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Rosscarbery: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.