placenamesDunleer
Dún Léire
Lewis described several kinds of schooling alongside a church recently enlarged and repaired.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Dún Léire · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dunleer · English · main form
Place & story
Different ways of supporting schools
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Dunleer distinguishes several educational arrangements. The rector and curate supported a parochial school teaching about fifty children, while subscriptions supported an infants’ school. He also recorded a newly built schoolhouse connected with the New Board of Education and a separate private school with about eighty children. His account identifies different forms of support, without supplying an opening date for each school. [2]
Grants, loans and a glebe
Lewis reported that Dunleer’s church had recently been enlarged and repaired with a £300 grant from the Board of First Fruits. He separately recorded a £100 gift and a £1,125 loan towards the glebe house. These were distinct allocations: the larger loan concerned the house rather than the church repairs. Of the glebe’s twenty and a quarter acres, nineteen and a quarter were subject to rent. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dunleer. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dunleer: 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.