placenamesDrumshallon
Droim Sealann
Lewis distinguished a supported parochial school from a separate private school.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Droim Sealann · Irish · main form · validated name
- Drumshallon · English · main form
Place & story
School patronage in 1837
The Countess de Salis was patron of Drumshallon’s parochial school when Samuel Lewis described the parish in 1837. The school also received £12 12s. annually from the appropriators of the parish’s ecclesiastical income. Lewis separately recorded a private school attended by about forty boys and twenty girls. Those attendance figures belong to the private school; his entry gives no pupil total for the parochial school or opening date for either institution. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumshallon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drumshallon, 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.