placenamesDoora
Dúire
Knockanean’s own school history describes separate boys’ and girls’ rooms, their amalgamation and a later replacement building.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Dúire · Irish · main form
- Doora · English · main form
Place & story
Two rooms under thatch
The school’s institutional history dates a new Knockanean school to 1860–61. Its stone walls, thatched roof and earthen floor enclosed two rooms, one for boys and one for girls, each furnished with three desks. Mr O’Neill taught the boys and Mrs Healy the girls. The two schools amalgamated in 1877, with O’Neill as principal. A new building followed in 1949, when Mrs Doherty and Miss Brennan were the two teachers. These successive arrangements show changes in both premises and the organisation of local education. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Doora. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- School Information: School History · Knockanean National School
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-17. How this page was prepared.