placenamesCollegeland
A recorded burial ground survives in the townland, while the original census separates its rural and urban portions.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Collegeland · English · main form
Place & story
Lissahearin burial ground
The National Monuments Service record compiled in 2019 describes a roughly circular earthwork, about nineteen metres across, bounded by a low bank of earth and stone. Trees mark its perimeter, and stones occur within it. Recorded as a children’s burial ground, it resembles a small ringfort; the survey preserves the Ordnance Survey suggestion that a ringfort may have been reused for burial. That earlier function remains an interpretation. [2]
Rural and urban portions
The 1911 census lists a rural portion of Collegeland in Athlone East Rural electoral division and an urban portion in Athlone East Urban. The footnotes explicitly identify the division of the townland between them. Population figures for the wider urban district therefore cannot be treated as a separate return for Collegeland alone. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Brawny
- Civil parish
- Saint Mary's
- Coordinates
- 53.42286, -7.91299
- Mapped area
- 0.11 km²
- Logainm ID
- 50743 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Collegeland. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lissahearin, children’s burial ground WM029-023---- · Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien, National Monuments Service
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Westmeath, printed pp 6–7 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by the Athlone Printing Works Company, 1912
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2008-12-03. How this page was prepared.