placenamesClonleigh
Cluain Lao
Lewis distinguished a charitable intention from money actually reaching its recipients.
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
- Cluain Lao · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clonleigh · English · main form
Place & story
Interest intended for poor householders
Mr Blackburn left £200 in 1806, intending the interest to be distributed annually among poor householders, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Lifford and Clonleigh account. Lewis reported that the legacy had still not become available for that purpose. The sum was the capital bequest, rather than a yearly payment. The account preserves a planned form of local relief whose intended benefit had yet to materialise. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Coordinates
- 54.84598, -7.52561
- Mapped area
- 51.14 km²
- Logainm ID
- 778 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonleigh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lifford or Clonleigh, Donegal: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-08-05. How this page was prepared.