placenamesSkull
An Scoil
Schoolrooms formed part of the parish’s nineteenth-century provision for church services.
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
- An Scoil · Irish · main form · validated name
- Skull · English · main form
Place & story
A chapel of ease and three schoolrooms
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Skull account records Church of Ireland services in three schoolrooms across the parish. They supplemented the parish church, dated in his account to 1720, and a chapel of ease erected at Ballydehob in 1829. The latter received a £600 Board of First Fruits gift. Lewis separately counted six public schools teaching about 340 children, three supported by the rector. His description does not identify all three worship rooms with those three rector-supported schools. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery West (W.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.55295, -9.52413 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 153.79 km²
- Logainm ID
- 679 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Skull. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Skull: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.