placenamesDungarvan
Dún Garbháin
Lewis’s 1837 description records the glebe house, church funding and contrasting parish arrangements.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Dún Garbháin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dungarvan · English · main form
Place & story
Building the glebe house
Dungarvan's glebe house was erected in 1813 with a £400 gift and an equal loan from the Board of First Fruits. Samuel Lewis recorded fifteen acres of glebe alongside it, providing the parish clergy with a residence and associated land. [2]
Church building and repairs
The Board had also contributed £800 towards the parish church in 1812. By Lewis's account in 1837, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had spent another £283 repairing it. These separate grants distinguish the original construction from subsequent maintenance of the Church of Ireland building. [2]
Different parish arrangements
The vicarage belonged to the diocese of Ossory and lay in Crown patronage, while J. Hamilton Bunbury held the impropriate rectory. Catholic Dungarvan formed part of the Gowran district and had its own chapel, reflecting a different organisation across the same rural locality. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dungarvan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dungarvan, Kilkenny: 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.