placenamesConwal
Conbháil
Lewis recorded several forms of education across the parish, with a named annual payment to its parish school.
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
- Conbháil · Irish · main form · validated name
- Conwal · English · main form
Place & story
An endowed contribution of twelve pounds
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Conwal account records £12 a year from Colonel Robertson’s school fund towards the parish school, alongside an annual donation from the rector. He also listed a Presbyterian free school and eight other public schools. About 850 children attended these institutions collectively. Eight Sunday schools were recorded separately. The parish-wide total therefore describes a wider network than the national school mentioned in Lewis’s account of Letterkenny town. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Coordinates
- 54.95039, -7.82500
- Mapped area
- 183.2 km²
- Logainm ID
- 780 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Conwal. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Conwall: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-03-31. How this page was prepared.