placenamesDysartenos
Díseart Aonghais
An 1837 account records the parish fair calendar and distinguishes church repairs from the building of its glebe-house.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Díseart Aonghais · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Dysartenos · English · main form
Place & story
A church on the Dysart hills
Samuel Lewis described Dysartenos’s parish church in 1837 as a small building with a square tower on one of the Dysart hills. He recorded a recent £333 grant from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners towards repairs. The glebe-house belonged to an earlier project: it was built in 1813 with a £400 gift and a £360 loan from the Board of First Fruits. Those sums describe assistance towards the house rather than the church’s construction cost. [2]
Two annual fair dates
Lewis recorded fairs on Whit Monday and 12 October in this parish on the road between Stradbally and Maryborough. His account also noted a national school attended by about 140 children and a separate Sunday school. These are records of parish life in 1837, rather than a present-day calendar or school return. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Laois
- Barony
- Maryborough East
- Barony
- Stradbally
- Coordinates
- 53.01036, -7.20282
- Mapped area
- 24.28 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1433 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dysartenos. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dysartenos — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.