placenamesBoyounagh
Buíbheanach
Lewis recorded a patron-supported school alongside three private pay 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
- Buíbheanach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Boyounagh · English · main form
Place & story
Different routes to schooling
Lord Fitzgerald supported a school in Boyounagh parish teaching about eighty boys and ten girls, according to Samuel Lewis in 1837. Three private pay schools together taught roughly 280 boys and fifty girls. The attendance figures distinguish the patron-supported school from the fee-paying schools and show boys substantially outnumbering girls in both groups. Lewis did not give the schools’ individual names or locate them within particular townlands. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Boyounagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Boyanagh: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.