placenamesTobinstown
Baile Tóibín
The old school and former inn mark the crossroads at the centre of Tobinstown.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Baile Tóibín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tobinstown · English · main form
Place & story
Remembering the school
Historian Turtle Bunbury describes Tobinstown Cross with the former school to the north and a former pub, shop and post office to the east. In his account, teacher Michael Moloney recalled arriving at Tobinstown School in 1965 and working alongside Miss O’Leary. The school closed in July 1968. Most of its roughly sixty pupils transferred to Rathvilly, where Moloney also moved, while others went to Ballyconnell. His recollections preserve the last years of an institution that had helped sustain the crossroads community. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Carlow
- Barony
- Rathvilly
- Civil parish
- Rathvilly
- Within
- Tobinstown
- Coordinates
- 52.84596, -6.70858 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412419 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tobinstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- My Friend, Paddy Delaney (1929–2023) of Tobinstown, County Carlow, including Michael Moloney interview of 30 August 2012 · Turtle Bunbury
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.