placenamesDrumacrib
Droim Mhic Roib
Garmany’s Grove in neighbouring Formil and a nineteenth-century teacher’s record illuminate the wider Drumacrib locality.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Droim Mhic Roib · Irish · main form · validated name
- Drumacrib · English · main form
Place & story
Garmany’s Grove at Formil
Garmany’s Grove Presbyterian church stands at Formil in the wider Drumacrib locality. The National Inventory dates the five-bay, single-storey building to about 1800. Its whitewashed roughcast walls, round-headed openings and plain interior reflect a restrained meeting-house design. Inside, the timber boxed pews are a particularly notable survival, described by the survey as rare in County Monaghan. The building sits within a graveyard enclosed by walls and mature trees. [2]
A congregation across the border
Successive maps preserve changes in the church’s recorded name. The 1835 Ordnance Survey labelled it Grove Presbyterian Meeting House; the Griffith valuation map used Gorman’s Grove Meeting House, and the 1908 survey called it Garmoney’s Grove Secession Church. The National Inventory also notes a congregation drawn from both sides of the nearby border. These names and connections distinguish a long-established rural institution from a village church serving only one townland. [2]
A teacher educated near Drumacrib
The national education return of 1905 records Peter Graham’s early schooling at Tullyhatna, with Drumacrib as its post town. By then, he was principal of Moy’s boys’ school in Monaghan, with over thirty-nine years’ teaching service. The entry documents an educational connection with the Drumacrib district. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumacrib. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Garmany’s Grove Presbyterian Church, NIAH 41402011 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Teachers in service 31 March 1905: Peter Graham, ED/PCO/10/1/13 · Commissioners of National Education / National Archives of Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2013-11-05. How this page was prepared.