placenamesDalystown
Baile Uí Dhálaigh
The local school’s history connects several rural communities, while an early nineteenth-century house preserves another strand of Dalystown’s built heritage.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Uí Dhálaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dalystown · English · main form
Place & story
The 1902 school
Dalystown National School was built in 1902 after fire destroyed the older school at Kilbride. Its first roll contained fifty children: twenty-seven boys and twenty-three girls. It served a wider area including Meedin, Clonfad, Carrick and Cloneyheigue as well as Dalystown itself. A century later the school’s centenary committee published By Blossom’d Furze, edited by Danny Dunne, documenting a hundred years of education. The institution’s history therefore belongs to a network of rural communities rather than one village alone. [2] [3]
A distinctive country doorway
The house recorded by the National Inventory as Dalystown dates from around 1810. Its three-bay, two-storey front has a projecting entrance porch with a carefully worked stone doorway. A fanlight and round-headed sidelights, the latter with Gothic-pattern glazing, make the entrance unusually elaborate for a building of this scale. Sash windows and a complex of stone outbuildings complete the recorded group. The inventory suggests that the porch may be a later addition, incorporating a doorway moved from its earlier position. [4]
A new building in 2006
A replacement school building was completed at Easter 2006 and formally opened on 15 December that year. The school’s own account describes four classrooms and a general-purpose room, with facilities also used by local community groups. This was a further change in premises after the move from Kilbride a century earlier. The school retained its connection with the same broad district while gaining a building designed for a later generation of pupils. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Fartullagh
- Civil parish
- Clonfad
- Within
- Dalystown
- Coordinates
- 53.43551, -7.38302 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413764 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dalystown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- About Us: school history · Dalystown National School
- By Blossom’d Furze: a century of education, bibliographicrecord · Irish History Online, Royal Irish Academy
- Dalystown house,15403208 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.