placenamesTeerelton
Tír Eiltín
The local school began in 1887 as separate establishments for boys and girls.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tír Eiltín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Teerelton · English · main form
- Tarelton · English · main form
Place & story
Two schools become one
Tirelton National School opened on 2 November 1887, initially with five boys and four girls attending separate schools. Jeremiah Coghlan taught the boys and Ellen Joyce taught the girls. Within a year, their respective enrolments had grown to 83 and 74. The two schools amalgamated in April 1930. The school’s own account preserves these opening-day details, linking the present institution with its nineteenth-century predecessors. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Civil parish
- Kilmichael
- Within
- Teerelton
- Coordinates
- 51.84223, -8.98677 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1412905 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Teerelton. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- About Us: Tirelton National School · Tirelton National School
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.