placenamesDonaghpatrick
Domhnach Phádraig
Lewis distinguished the incumbent’s support from the parish’s private schools.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Domhnach Phádraig · Irish · main form · validated name
- Donaghpatrick · English · main form
Place & story
Support for teaching
The incumbent supported Donaghpatrick’s parochial school and provided a house and garden, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Three private schools separately taught about 120 boys and fifty girls between them. The same account records the glebe house’s construction in 1812 with a £200 gift and £600 loan from the Board of First Fruits. That building grant and loan concerned the clerical residence; Lewis did not identify the school’s house and garden as the glebe house or state a financial value for them. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Navan Lower
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Coordinates
- 53.69498, -6.75059
- Mapped area
- 15.58 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1851 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Donaghpatrick. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Donoughpatrick, Meath, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-06-03. How this page was prepared.