placenamesCastledermot
Díseart Diarmada
Lewis’s account distinguishes an eighteenth-century school that had closed from national schools still being proposed.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Díseart Diarmada · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Castledermot · English · main form
Place & story
Money and land for education
Samuel Lewis recorded that the Earl of Kildare built a schoolhouse at Castledermot and endowed it with £500, followed by another £500 bequest at his death. The school opened in 1734. His son James, Marquess of Kildare, added twenty acres of land to its endowment. Lewis reported that it had ceased operating in 1832. [2]
Schools proposed at the friary
In 1837 Lewis described national schools as about to be built on land from the former Franciscan convent site given by Richard Farrell. This was a proposed development in his account. It should be distinguished from both the closed endowed school and an existing parochial school supported by the incumbent. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Coordinates
- 52.90375, -6.83739
- Mapped area
- 30.54 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1155 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castledermot. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Castle-Dermot: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-08-21. How this page was prepared.