placenamesDingle
An Daingean
The nineteenth-century parish stretched beyond the harbour streets into working farmland and mountain pasture.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Daingean · Irish · main form · local name
- Daingean Uí Chúis · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dingle · English · main form
Place & story
Farming beside the sea
Lewis’s 1837 account assigned roughly a quarter of Dingle parish’s tithe-assessed land to coarse mountain pasture. Some could be reclaimed, while the available bog was insufficient to supply everyone with fuel. Seaweed was widely used as manure, and building stone was obtained locally. The description connects the parish’s agricultural life with resources from both its hills and coast. [2]
School provision before the Famine
A new schoolhouse intended to accommodate about 500 boys had recently been built with two-thirds of its cost paid by the National Board and the remainder by subscribers. Lewis distinguished that capacity from actual education totals: across the parish, including three private schools, he counted about 400 pupils, approximately 290 boys and 110 girls. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Corkaguiny
- Coordinates
- 52.13830, -10.27573
- Mapped area
- 37.22 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1065 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dingle. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dingle — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.