placenamesChurch Hill
An Droim Meánach
Church Hill’s history links the former parish church at Drumenagh with a small nineteenth-century centre for fairs, post and medical care.
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
- An Droim Meánach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Church Hill · English · main form
Place & story
The church at Drumenagh
Inishmacsaint Parish Church’s own history identifies Drumenagh with Church Hill. It records that the church there became the parish church in 1710, during John Smyth’s rectorship. The present church at Benmore succeeded it in 1831. That building occupied the site of Robert Dundas’s house, for which he received another house and land on the Ely estate. [2]
Fairs and the post road
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description places Church Hill near the Dublin–Ballyshannon mail-coach road. It had a sub-post-office serving connections with Ballyshannon and Enniskillen. Three annual fairs fell on 14 May, 30 August and 30 November. Lewis also recorded a Wesleyan Methodist place of worship and a dispensary. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Magheraboy
- Civil parish
- Inishmacsaint
- Coordinates
- 54.44332, -7.83043 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 130613 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Church Hill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- History of our church · Inishmacsaint Parish Church
- Church-Hill, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis; transcription hosted by Library Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2010-04-19. How this page was prepared.