placenamesDromiskin
Droim Ineasclainn
The school’s history preserved in its public archive catalogue names principal Patrick Quinn.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Droim Ineasclainn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dromiskin · English · main form
Place & story
Schooling and practical farming
Saint Peter’s National School’s public archive catalogue preserves the school’s account of a model farm at Dromiskin. Young prospective farmers learned crop rotation under principal Patrick Quinn, who received Lord Morpeth’s Premium in 1844. The same account attributes the earlier school building of 1837 to funds collected by Mrs McClintock of Dromiskin House, later Lady Rathdonnell. These details connect classroom teaching with practical agricultural instruction. The catalogue does not give a date for the model farm’s opening. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dromiskin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- St Peter’s National School, Dromiskin, public collection description IE LHA SCH007/ · Lorraine McCann, Louth County Archives Service; Irish Archives Resource
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.