placenamesMulhuddart
Mullach Eadrad
Lewis recorded a parliamentary foundation for a religious guild and a later school supported by chapel collections.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Mullach Eadrad · Irish · main form · validated name
- Mulhuddart · English · main form
Place & story
A fraternity of the Blessed Virgin
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account records a guild or fraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mulhuddart, founded by an act of parliament in the twenty-third year of Henry VI’s reign. His entry supplies the institution’s dedication and regnal date without describing its membership or later activities. He also described the parish as formerly the northern part of Castleknock. [2]
A collection for the school
The parish’s National Board school taught sixty-two boys and sixteen girls when Lewis described it. A collection at the Catholic chapel helped support the school. The figures are a dated school return, while the funding detail records a link between chapel support and local education; it does not identify a present-day successor school. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Castleknock
- Coordinates
- 53.42021, -6.39159
- Mapped area
- 16.23 km²
- Logainm ID
- 867 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Mulhuddart. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mullahiddart or Mullahithart — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-27. How this page was prepared.