placenamesTeermaclane
Tír Mhic Calláin
Estate rentals and school registers document landholding, teaching and the families who attended school in this district south of Ennis.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tír Mhic Calláin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Teermaclane · English · main form
Place & story
The Woulfe estate
The Woulfe family’s association with Teermaclane is documented in estate rentals. The University of Galway’s account records Nicholas Woulfe acquiring the property from the Earl of Thomond in the 1680s. Stephen Wolfe held Teermaclane and two other townlands in the Clive estate rental of 1761; Peter Wolfe held the same group in 1841. By the time of Griffith’s Valuation, the estate was under the Court of Chancery. [2]
Schooling before the national school
Aoife de Buitléir’s study identifies two schools in Tiermaclane in the 1824 education inquiry. John Casey taught 40 pupils in a thatched stone building, while Michael Couney taught 38 in the chapel. Girls attended both schools: the returns counted fourteen in Casey’s school and sixteen in Couney’s. These entries establish organised teaching locally well before the surviving Tiermaclane National School registers began in the following generation. [3]
What the registers preserve
Tiermaclane National School’s earliest recorded enrolment was in May 1864. Its registers provide evidence of pupils’ home places, parents’ occupations and previous schooling, allowing the library study to trace connections between education, trades and emigration. The school operated at Ballyea crossroads and was incorporated into the newly built Ballyea school in 1887–88. The study cautiously suggests an earlier connection with Newhall school, rather than treating that proposed institutional succession as certain. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Islands
- Civil parish
- Killone
- Within
- Teermaclane
- Coordinates
- 52.78579, -9.00798 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412568 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Teermaclane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Woulfe of Teermaclane: estate history · University of Galway, Landed Estates
- Tiermaclane National School:1864–1888 · Aoife de Buitléir, Clare Libraries Local Studies, August2010
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.