placenamesDrumlease
Droim Lias
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners provided a small gift and a much larger loan.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Droim Lias · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Drumlease · English · main form
Place & story
A house and its attached land
Drumlease’s glebe-house was built with help from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1834. Samuel Lewis recorded a £100 gift and a £900 loan, distinguishing money given outright from money advanced on loan. His 1837 description also gives the glebe’s area as 577 acres. The figures concern the house and land serving the parish benefice; they do not give a total construction cost or identify the terms on which the loan was repaid. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Leitrim
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Coordinates
- 54.26900, -8.28822
- Mapped area
- 61.89 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1478 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumlease. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drumlease: 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.