School: Cushinstown (roll number 3146)
- Location:
- Cushinstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Rita Dardis
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- The name in Irish for Cushenstown is Baile Cúisín. It occurs in the Annals of the Four Masters 1552, volume 5, page 1526 in the last line of text.
This name you will find transferred from the Four Masters to Onomasticon Goidelicum page 79 column B.
The place was famous as the residence of the celebrated Sir Thomas Cusack whose life and villanies are recorded briefly in Elrington ball The Judges in Ireland volume 1, page 200 and in the State Papers passim. He was buried in Trevet near Dunshaughlin and there is a long inscription over the old chap there.
- Collector
- Nicholas Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cushinstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mac Cionnaith
- Gender
- Unknown
- Occupation
- Cigire
