placenamesClontuskert
Cluain Tuaiscirt
Lewis recorded separate building projects in 1818 and 1820 in this Galway parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Tuaiscirt · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Clontuskert · English · main form
Place & story
A stone spire at Glanlahan
Samuel Lewis described the parish church at Glanlahan as having a spire of dressed stone. It had been erected in 1818 with a £900 gift from the Board of First Fruits, according to his 1837 account. This was the parish church, separate from the older abbey ruins also described in the entry. [2]
Gift and loan for a residence
The glebe-house was built in 1820 with a £250 gift and a £450 loan. Lewis’s figures distinguish the grant towards the church from the two forms of assistance towards the clergy residence. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Clonmacnowen
- Barony
- Longford
- Coordinates
- 53.27791, -8.23079
- Mapped area
- 62.31 km²
- Logainm ID
- 922 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clontuskert. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clontuskert, Galway: 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.