placenamesDingle
Daingean Uí Chúis
The Main Street hall and a contemporary newspaper report preserve different traces of the town’s temperance movement.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Daingean Uí Chúis · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dingle · English · main form
Place & story
Saint Mary’s Temperance Hall
Saint Mary’s Temperance Hall on Main Street bears the date 1842. Its three-bay, two-storey frontage includes a recessed ground-floor porch and a carved limestone plaque. Rounded upper windows retain timber fanlights, while iron guards protect openings below. The inventory records replacement window fittings alongside these older elements. This purpose-built hall gives Dingle’s temperance movement a surviving architectural presence within the town centre. [2]
Saint Patrick’s Day indoors
A report dated 19 March 1842, published in the Kerry Examiner and preserved in transcription, describes plans for a Saint Patrick’s Day temperance procession at Dingle. Heavy rain prevented the intended gathering of town and country members. That evening, the Market House Temperance Society met in rooms decorated with greenery and illuminated window displays. Tea, speeches and toasts preceded dancing that continued into the early morning. The report documents that particular celebration; it does not establish that it took place in the newly dated hall. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dingle. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Saint Mary’s Temperance Hall, Main Street, record21400601 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kerry Examiner,22March1842,page3: Temperance in Dingle; transcript in Temperance in Ireland · Kerry Examiner correspondent,19March1842; transcription compiled by Northkerry
- Saint Mary's Temperance Hall in Dingle, County Kerry, as photographed in October 2006 illustration: based on a An Daingean (Dingle): Halla na Measarthachta by Nigel Cox. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.