placenamesLeamlara
Léim Lára
Woodland has provided a setting for local learning and a community walkway.
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
- Léim Lára · Irish · main form · validated name
- Leamlara · English · main form
- Lemlara · English · main form
Place & story
A writer at the school
In October 2025, Marita Conlon-McKenna described her visit to Bishop Ahern National School in Leamlara. Former principal Marie Murphy told her about reading Under the Hawthorn Tree to pupils while sitting among the trees. The author’s account links the school’s wooded setting with the children’s reading. [2]
A community woodland project
In EirGrid’s February 2025 newsletter, Declan Whelan of Lisgoold Leamlara Community Council recalled developing the idea of a woodland walkway in 2019. The council received €37,000 from the Celtic Interconnector Community Benefit Fund towards the first phase of Leamlara Woods Walking Trail. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Barrymore
- Civil parish
- Ballycurrany
- Within
- Leamlara
- Coordinates
- 51.97191, -8.26195 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412887 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Leamlara. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Wild, Windy and Wet in Cork!, 10 October 2025 · Marita Conlon-McKenna, first-person account published on her website
- Celtic Interconnector Newsletter, issue 6, February 2025, page 3 · EirGrid, incorporating Declan Whelan’s account for Lisgoold Leamlara Community Council
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.