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Recorded forms
Dubháth· Irish · main form · validated name
Duagh· English · main form
Place & story
Saint Brigid’s and the changing village
The parish history records that Father O'Flaherty built a thatched church in 1806 near the present village, about half a mile from the older settlement by the graveyard. The later Saint Brigid's is a substantial stone church with a nave and side aisles divided by pointed arches. Sandstone walls, limestone details and an exposed roof distinguish its interior and exterior. Its development belongs to the nineteenth-century rebuilding of the village's religious centre.[2][3]
The Duagh ciborium
In 1923 an eighteenth-century silver ciborium was discovered in turf delivered to the presbytery from a bog some five kilometres away. The parish account says the priest found the vessel inside a sod. It interprets the concealment as safekeeping during the penal period, an explanation that should remain distinct from the documented discovery. The object connects Duagh with the survival and later recovery of church furnishings outside their original setting.[2]
Five schools become one
Saint Brigid's National School opened in 1971 as a central school, bringing together pupils from five smaller schools: Duagh, Islandanny, Derrindaffe, Dromlegach and Knockalougha. Nine teachers formed the opening staff. The change concentrated education from a dispersed rural parish in one larger institution on the Listowel–Abbeyfeale road. It represents a substantial reorganisation of local school life, rather than the beginning of education in Duagh itself.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
View population figures
Duagh — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Duagh, Kerry
Published census settlement populations
222people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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