placenamesLady's Bridge
Droichead na Scuab
The East Cork village’s nineteenth-century chapel and school history connect Lady’s Bridge with the surrounding parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Droichead na Scuab · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lady's Bridge · English · main form
Place & story
On the Ballycotton road
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes Lady’s Bridge as a village on the road from Castlemartyr towards Ballycotton. He counted 41 houses and 231 inhabitants. The Catholic chapel served a district embracing Ightermurragh, Garryvoe and Bohillane, with a national school for boys and girls nearby. The village thus combined a roadside position with educational and religious functions extending beyond its own houses. [2]
The village’s Catholic church
The national architectural survey dates the Catholic church at Lady’s Bridge to about 1820. Its relatively plain exterior has a gabled front, a projecting entrance porch and pointed nave windows. Inside, the building preserves a timber gallery, carved marble altar furnishings and mosaic decoration around the altar. The survey also draws attention to the detailed stained glass, whose dedication banners were left blank rather than naming donors. [3]
From village classrooms to Kilcredan
Lady’s Bridge retained its own school alongside those at Kilcredan and Kilmacdonagh into the twentieth century. Kilcredan National School’s history explains how Father Tom Gallagher’s proposal to replace two ageing schools expanded to include the Lady’s Bridge children. The combined school opened at Kilcredan in May 1972 with seven classrooms and six teachers. School buses brought children from the separate local communities to their new shared building. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Civil parish
- Ightermurragh
- Within
- Lady's Bridge
- Coordinates
- 51.89854, -8.04098
- Logainm ID
- 1412886 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lady's Bridge. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ladies’-Bridge, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis; University of Portsmouth historical gazetteer transcription
- Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, Knockglass, survey 20907724 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- History of Kilcredan National School · Kilcredan National School
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.