placenamesDerreen
Doirín
A community survey preserves Derreen’s changing shopkeepers and the links between trade, postal services and the courthouse.
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
- Doirín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Derreen · English · main form
Place & story
The Daly and Masterson business
The 2024 local heritage audit traces Nicholas Daly’s public house and shop in Derreen to about 1900. His son Dermot later ran the business and sold it to Katty Kelly in 1980. After a brief period under Kelly, Michael and Annette Masterson bought it in the early 1980s. They built a new shop and continued trading until 2000. [2]
Other trading places
The same community record places an earlier Daly public house at the courthouse site, where a shop and post office also operated from the early twentieth century. It recalls another shop belonging to Lynch, taken over around 1915 by Peter Treacy, who came from a trading family in Abbeyknockmoy. That shop lasted into approximately the 1950s. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Derreen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Abbeyknockmoy Heritage Audit 2024, Appendix I, Derreen shops, printed page 120 · Abbeyknockmoy Cultural Heritage; Zena Hoctor Heritage Services
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-11. How this page was prepared.