placenamesDromin
Droim Ing
Lewis recorded about 180 pupils and a yearly contribution towards the master.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Droim Ing · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dromin · English · main form
Place & story
A school supported by W. H. Forster
About 180 children attended a school under the patronage of the Reverend W. H. Forster, Dromin’s incumbent, in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Forster paid the master £10 a year. That sum was his stated contribution, rather than a figure for all the school’s income or the master’s total earnings. Lewis supplied neither a foundation date nor a breakdown of the pupils’ homes. His entry places the school in the Louth parish near Dunleer, distinct from the Dromin parish in County Limerick. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dromin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dromin, Louth: 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.