placenamesDavidstown
Baile Dháibhí
Lewis recorded a local school under the charity’s trustees.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Baile Dháibhí · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Davidstown · English · main form
Place & story
A school in the parish
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Davidstown identifies a school at Calverstown under the trustees of Erasmus Smith’s charity. About thirty boys and forty girls attended it. Lewis described Davidstown as a predominantly cultivated parish south-southwest of Kilcullen, on the Dublin–Athy road. His school entry establishes the charitable connection and an approximate attendance, but gives no foundation date or teacher’s name. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban East
- Coordinates
- 53.05976, -6.79429
- Mapped area
- 15.85 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1236 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Davidstown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Davidstown, 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.