placenamesSantry
Seantrabh
An 1837 account records a rural parish with a residential charter school and smaller public schools.
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
- Seantrabh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Santry · English · main form
Place & story
Meadow and pasture north of Dublin
Lewis described Santry parish as chiefly meadow and pasture in 1837, with fertile tilled land and an improving system of agriculture. This account concerns the wider rural parish north of Dublin, rather than the twenty-five houses he counted in the village. [2]
An endowed residential school
The charter school under the Incorporated Society held an endowment of land from R. H. L. Gardiner. Primate Boulter had contributed £400 towards its building on the Drogheda road. About thirty children were clothed, maintained and educated there before being placed as apprentices when old enough. Two other public schools taught approximately fifty children. These figures describe the institutions recorded by Lewis in 1837. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Santry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Santry — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.