placenamesSaint Nicholas
Paróiste San Nioclás
Lewis recorded schoolrooms, clothing and daily bread for pupils in the Cork 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
- Paróiste San Nioclás · Irish · main form · validated name
- Saint Nicholas · English · main form
Place & story
More than classroom teaching
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Cork’s schools describes Saint Nicholas’s charity-school building in Cove Street. A grant obtained in 1822 supported a building with two schoolrooms, and the rector, the Reverend J. N. Lombard, added an infant classroom in 1831. Lewis counted seventy-six boys and ninety-nine girls in the schools. Thirty boys and twenty-five girls received clothing from the funds, while the children also received bread daily. These figures distinguish the number being taught from the smaller group supplied with clothing; they do not mean that every pupil received the same assistance. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Barony
- Cork
- Barony
- Cork City
- Coordinates
- 51.87354, -8.50292
- Mapped area
- 5.46 km²
- Logainm ID
- 752 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Saint Nicholas. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cork Schools, 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.