placenamesDuagh
Dubháth
Lewis records different forms of funding for the parish church and glebe-house.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Dubháth · Irish · main form
- Duagh · English · main form
Place & story
Building in 1814 and 1829
Duagh’s Church of Ireland church was built in 1814 with an £800 gift from the Board of First Fruits, according to Samuel Lewis. The glebe-house followed in 1829, supported by a £415 gift and a £184 loan. Lewis placed the house on a glebe of 23 acres. His figures distinguish outright assistance from money advanced as a loan. [2]
A rural school network
Lewis’s 1837 account also records a school supervised by the Catholic parish priest and two other pay schools. More than 100 children attended these schools collectively. The total describes education across the historical parish, rather than the population or school attendance of Duagh village alone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Coordinates
- 52.39912, -9.38819
- Mapped area
- 79.69 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1067 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Duagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Duagh: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.