placenamesDooish
Dubhais
Records of Dooish near Drumquin preserve the names of nineteenth-century teachers and distinguish this Tyrone community from places of the same name in Donegal.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Dubhais · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dooish · English · main form
Place & story
The townland behind the village name
Dooish belongs to West Longfield civil parish and the barony of West Omagh. The mapped townland covers about 846 acres, extending beyond the small settlement represented by the village name. Its neighbours include Curraghamulkin, Coolavannagh and Segully. These boundaries locate Dooish within Drumquin's rural hinterland and distinguish it from the several Donegal localities sharing its English spelling. [2]
Two schools in the 1863 directory
The Omagh Almanac and Street Directory of 1863 recorded separate male and female national schools at Dooish. John McTaggart taught the boys under the management of the Reverend Francis O'Neill. Anne Cooke taught the girls, whose manager was the Reverend John Davidson. The entries provide named evidence of local schooling and its management in the mid-nineteenth century, rather than an inferred foundation date for a surviving building. [3]
Catherine Eekin’s teaching career
The Commissioners of National Education's return for March 1905 identifies Catherine Eekin as principal of Dooish school, roll number 3988 in County Tyrone. It records her education at Omagh Model School and training at Marlborough Street, Dublin. Her entry connects a rural classroom with the national system of teacher training. The document supplies a specific professional association with Dooish without establishing that the school premises were unchanged from the nineteenth century. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Omagh West
- Civil parish
- Longfield West
- Coordinates
- 54.58612, -7.48952 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414324 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dooish. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dooish Townland, County Tyrone: mapped boundaries · Townlands.ie, OpenStreetMap-derived townland mapping
- National Schools in Omagh District, 1863: transcription of Omagh Almanac and Street Directory · Omagh Almanac and Street Directory (1863), transcription at CoTyrone.com
- Teachers in the Service of the Commissioners of National Education, 31 March 1905: Donovan–Ellis · Commissioners of National Education; National Archives of Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-27. How this page was prepared.