placenamesAughnish
Eachinis
Lewis records schooling supported by a named fund and a schoolhouse still being built in 1837.
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
- Eachinis · Irish · main form
- Aughnish · English · main form
Place & story
Schooling across the parish
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Aughnish lists a parochial school assisted by Colonel Robertson’s fund and four other public schools. Together these schools taught about 200 boys and 250 girls. He separately counted approximately 150 boys and 60 girls in private schools, and recorded a Sunday school at Glenlary. [2]
A schoolhouse under construction
The Synod of Ulster was erecting a schoolhouse when Lewis wrote; his account does not establish its completion date. He also listed a dispensary, a loan fund, a fund supplying flax and a Ladies’ Society, recording several forms of local provision alongside the schools. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Coordinates
- 55.03350, -7.61507 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 36.96 km²
- Logainm ID
- 773 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Aughnish. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aughnish: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-01-12. How this page was prepared.