placenamesClonca
Cluain Catha
Lewis recorded institutional support from the Board of First Fruits, Bishop Knox and the Harvey family.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Catha · Irish · main form
- Clonca · English · main form
Place & story
Different contributions to local institutions
Malin’s parish church was built in 1827, according to Samuel Lewis. A £200 loan from the Board of First Fruits helped finance it, alongside separate £100 gifts from Bishop Knox and Mr Harvey of Malin Hall. Lewis’s 1837 Cloncha account also credits the Harvey family with the main support of Malin’s parochial schools. It names a female working school in Malin and schools at Keenagh and Tully, the latter two built on Mr Harvey’s estate. These references document several distinct forms of educational and church support. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Coordinates
- 55.31803, -7.26014 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 80.99 km²
- Logainm ID
- 775 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonca. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cloncha, or Clonca: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2023-12-01. How this page was prepared.