placenamesDonore
Dún Uabhair
An 1837 parish account describes a productive landscape linked to Drogheda by waterborne trade.
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
- Dún Uabhair · Irish · main form
- Donore · English · main form
Place & story
Stone from Sheephouse
Samuel Lewis described Donore's cultivated ground as highly productive in 1837, without bog or waste land. An established quarry at Sheephouse supplied pale limestone for building. These details place the small village within an agricultural and extractive landscape, rather than treating the whole parish as a settlement on Donore Hill. [2]
Goods moving through Oldbridge
The navigation passing Oldbridge carried timber, slates, stone and coal into Donore, while grain travelled back towards Drogheda. Lewis also identified H. B. Coddington's Oldbridge demesne and his property called Farm. Stalleen belonged to William Sharman Crawford, who used it as an occasional residence, connecting named estates with this trading landscape. [2]
A school and overlapping parishes
Donore's school taught approximately fifty boys and thirty girls. Catholic Donore headed a district also called Rosnaree, embracing Donore and Knockcommon with a chapel in each parish. Church of Ireland parishioners attended worship at Duleek and Drogheda. Lewis found only a gable and part of a side wall surviving from the old church. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Duleek Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.69940, -6.40603
- Mapped area
- 14.74 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1852 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Donore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Donore, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Sheephouse quarry, County Meath, as photographed in November 1994 illustration: based on a Quarry at Sheephouse, Co. Meath by Kieran Campbell. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-05-02. How this page was prepared.