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Drumlee

Droim Lao

Drumlee’s church records preserve a local congregation’s links with the Secession Synod and nineteenth-century missions to India.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of Drumlee Presbyterian Church, as photographed in2011.
Illustration, Drumlee Presbyterian Church, as photographed in2011
Recorded locationDrumlee54.26596° N · 6.05055° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie

The name

droimridgelaocalf

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

  • Droim Lao · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Drumlee · English · main form

Place & story

A Seceder meeting-house

Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Drumgooland parish identifies Drumlee as one of its two meeting-houses connected with the Seceding Synod, alongside Closkilt. The Presbyterian Historical Society’s list of synod moderators names the Rev. James Porter of Drumlee as moderator at Belfast in 1835. Together these records place the congregation within the wider organisation of Irish Presbyterianism before the 1840 union. [2] [3]

People & connections

Records and an overseas connection

In its September 2022–March 2023 news sheet, the Presbyterian Historical Society reported receiving Drumlee’s congregational archive, with records extending back to 1826. It also identified Drumlee as the home congregation of the Rev. John Shillidy, ordained for missionary work in India in 1874. A biography by R. H. Boyd formed part of the transferred papers. [4]

Geographic information

Place type
Population centre
County
Down
Civil parish
Drumgooland
Coordinates
54.26596, -6.05055 (approximate)
Logainm ID
1413236 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Drumlee. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Drumgooland:A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,1837 · Samuel Lewis
  3. Moderators of Seceder Synods1779–1840:1835JamesPorter · Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland
  4. PHSINewsSheet2023number1:Drumleeacquisition · Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland
  5. Drumlee Presbyterian Church, as photographed in2011 illustration: based on a Drumlee Presbyterian Church from the south by Eric Jones. 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 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.