placenamesDrumcose
Droim Cuas
A parliamentary exchange and a family-history collection preserve two individual connections with Drumcose on the Ely estate.
The name
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 Cuas · Irish · main form · validated name
- Drumcose · English · main form
Place & story
A land claim in Parliament
On 19 November 1908, Parliament considered William M’Cullagh of Drumcose’s application for land on the Ely estate. The question linked his claim to his grandfather’s eviction from Corsicon in 1876. Chief Secretary Augustine Birrell replied that the inherited eviction claim did not qualify, but that the Estates Commissioners would consider his separate application as a tenant’s son when dealing with the estate. [2]
John James Dundas’s collection
John James Dundas of Rooskey House, Drumcose, assembled books and charts about the Dundas families of Fermanagh. A researcher who visited Enniskillen Library in September 2011 recorded his donation of approximately 200 books for other researchers. The same firsthand account places his family-tree charts in Enniskillen Castle Museum, alongside notebooks by earlier researcher William Harloe Dundas. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Magheraboy
- Civil parish
- Devenish
- Within
- Drumcose
- Coordinates
- 54.39824, -7.73823 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413421 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumcose. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ely Estate Evicted Tenant, Hansard, 19 November 1908 · UK Parliament; Edward Fetherstonhaugh and Augustine Birrell
- John James Dundas Collection · Dundas of Fermanagh family-history website
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-11. How this page was prepared.