placenamesRaymoghy
Lewis recorded different forms of support for teaching across this Donegal 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
- Raymoghy · English · main form
Place & story
Two kinds of school endowment
Samuel Lewis recorded annual support from Colonel Robertson’s fund for Raymoghy’s parochial school in 1837. Another school had been endowed with a house and twenty acres by a member of the Beers family. He did not name that donor, so the gift cannot be assigned from this account to a particular Beers. [2]
Schools across the parish
About 240 children attended three public schools in Lewis’s parish account. Nine private schools taught approximately 270 more, while five Sunday schools were separately recorded. These totals describe the wider parish, rather than Manorcunningham village alone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Coordinates
- 54.94683, -7.59227
- Mapped area
- 61.76 km²
- Logainm ID
- 811 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Raymoghy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Raymochy or Ray: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-12-02. How this page was prepared.