placenamesCorrellstown
Baile Mhic Cearúill
Correllstown, also called Coralstown, preserves a history of classrooms moving between buildings, remembered by former pupils and continued through a recent restoration.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Mhic Cearúill · Irish · main form · validated name
- Correllstown · English · main form
- Coralstown · English · main form
Place & story
School sites and a remembered move
The national school’s own history recalls an early arrangement in which Coralstown’s church served as a classroom on weekdays. Around 1830 Mrs Dopping of Lowtown House provided a school site at Crossanstown. A later pupil, Mick Geraghty, remembered moving into a new building in April 1932 while gramophone music played. This recollection gives a personal detail to the school’s sequence of replacement buildings. [2]
A new school and another use for the old one
The present Coralstown school was built in 2007, with an additional classroom in 2011. The 1932 school subsequently stood empty. In a 2026 interview, Jill Leavy described converting that former school into a home for The Great House Revival television programme. She retained old coat hooks and doors, while reproducing the original plaque after external insulation made retaining its exposed position impractical. [2] [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Farbill
- Civil parish
- Killucan
- Within
- Correllstown
- Coordinates
- 53.47926, -7.18655 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413763 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Correllstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- About Us — History of the School · Coralstown National School
- Jill’s dream home at Coralstown is top of the class · Síofra Grant / Westmeath Examiner
- St Agnes Church near Correllstown (Coralstown) illustration: based on a St Agnes Church, Coralstown by Sarah777. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.