BROWSE
townland
Fearann na Scoile
genitive: Fhearann na Scoile
(Irish)
School Land
(English)

Glossary

English land

Centrepoint

53.774, -7.6457latitude, longitude
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Historical references

Nóta
1612
Kilnemade
Inq. Lag. Alt: 3J1
1624
“Grant of a free school for the county of Longford, attaching thereto 200a, for the schoolmaster for the time, for ever, 93a in Kiltenemadra, adjoining Clonbrony, 22a in Correlongford, and Ederclone, 85a adjoining Gurtyurroan and Corrylongford...”
CPR Leathanach: 576b
1629
Kiltenemadra
Cotton Map
1655
Kiltinemedron
DS
c.1660
‘The Free Schoole of St Johnstowne’ tugtha mar úinéirí 60a in ‘Killtenemaddrow’
BSD Leathanach: 169
1761
Schooland (John Raghtegan, Gent.)
CGn. Leathanach: 208.172.137897
1826
Schoolland
Parochial Abstracts, JACAS, II, uimh. 10. Leathanach: 82, 83, Imleabhar: II (10), Nóta: ‘Parochial Abstracts’
1835
School-land
BS:AL
1835
Schoolland
HCER:AL
1837
“Sir James Ware left a tract of land called Scolands, for the instruction of children”
Top. Dict. Leathanach: 351
1908
“Schoolland, near Ballinalee, was left by Sir James Ware, for the education of Protestant children, and hence the name.”
MacGivney Leathanach: 33
2007
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