placenamesMonivea
Muine Mheá
Lewis recorded a new school building alongside existing parish and private teaching.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Muine Mheá · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Monivea · English · main form
Place & story
A new building among existing schools
Samuel Lewis reported in 1837 that a national schoolhouse had just been completed in Monivea parish. He separately recorded about seventy children in the parochial school, supported by the perpetual curate, and about a hundred in two private schools. The completed national-school building was an additional development in his account; he supplied no enrolment figure for it or exact date when teaching began there. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Monivea. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Monivae or Abbert: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-05-27. How this page was prepared.