placenamesGarrydoolis
Garraí Dúlas
Garrydoolis National School records changes in a small rural community and a project collecting its family recipes.
The name
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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
- Garraí Dúlas · Irish · main form · validated name
- Garrydoolis · English · main form
Place & story
Adapting the school
The school’s own account records a reduction to one teacher in 1989 and a return to two teachers in 1998. An extension opened on 5 June 2005. Later work included removing the old coal shed in 2012 and enlarging the play area, supported by grants and parents’ fundraising. [2]
Let’s Bake History
In 2022, senior pupils produced Let’s Bake History, a cookbook containing twenty-one recipes from families connected with the school. The project formed part of the Junior Entrepreneur Programme. Pupils organised research, publicity and marketing, printed one hundred copies and planned to give part of the proceeds to the Irish Cancer Society. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Limerick
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Civil parish
- Templebredon
- Coordinates
- 52.51099, -8.33880 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414139 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Garrydoolis. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Our School · Garrydoolis National School
- Limerick school launches cookbook full of local family recipes (20 May 2022) · Cian Ó Broin
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-12-01. How this page was prepared.