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An Leac
An 1835 separation from Raphoe’s deanery preceded the church rebuilding still proposed in Lewis’s account.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Leac · Irish · main form
- Leck · English · main form
Place & story
Church administration and a planned rebuilding
Leck was separated from the deanery of Raphoe by an act of council in 1835, according to Samuel Lewis. His account published two years later describes it as a rectory and vicarage under Crown patronage. The glebe-house was already standing: it had been built in 1820 with a £450 gift and a £50 loan from the Board of First Fruits. The parish church was a different matter. Lewis described the old structure as awaiting rebuilding, so his entry records an intention rather than evidence that a replacement had opened. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Coordinates
- 54.93409, -7.71385
- Mapped area
- 43.6 km²
- Logainm ID
- 822 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Leck. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Leck: 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.