placenamesDysart
An Díseart
Derrycahill and Feevagh preserve different kinds of evidence, from a family restoration to an old track and a displaced carved stone.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Díseart · Irish · main form
- Dysart · English · main form
Place & story
Remembering Alice and William
In a 2020 interview with Deirdre Verney, Ted Kelly described restoring his grandparents Alice and William Cruise’s cottage at Derrycahill. Work began in summer 2017 and finished in November 2018, including thatching which he undertook himself. Objects returned by neighbours helped furnish the house. Kelly also recalled hosting about thirty people for the stations on 29 February 2020, documenting a particular household religious gathering. [2]
The nuns’ path
Across Feevagh More and Porteen and Ballyrevagh West, Michael Moore’s archaeological record describes an earth-and-stone track known locally as the nuns’ path. Its visible raised stretch continues into bog as gravel exposed in drains. A possible longer continuation was suggested by vegetation, rather than confirmed throughout. The recorded name does not establish who built the route or when. [3]
A carved stone at Feevagh
A limestone window-head with a curved, pointed opening and decorated corners was found near an abandoned limekiln at Feevagh around 1990. Moore suggested it might have come from a church or castle for burning into lime, but its original building remained unidentified. The surviving fragment supports that cautious interpretation rather than locating a lost castle. [4]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dysart. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Cowshed transformed into Derrycahill dream cottage, 13 August 2020 · Deirdre Verney, original interview with Ted Kelly
- Feevagh More / Porteen and Ballyrevagh West trackway, RO050-045 · Michael Moore, National Monuments Service, 24 August 2010
- Feevagh architectural fragment, RO050-049 · Michael Moore, National Monuments Service, 24 August 2010
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-11-02. How this page was prepared.