placenamesDrumcondra
Droim Conrach
The Meath parish also known as Drumconrath has a documented history of schooling, estate-supported charity and local record keeping.
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 Conrach · Irish · main form
- Drumcondra · English · main form
Place & story
Schooling before the Famine
In 1837 Samuel Lewis recorded about forty children in the parochial school and another eighty across two private schools. His account also identifies a charitable bequest by Alderman W. Forbes: a rent-charge secured on the Newstone estate to support the poor. These are contemporary details of education and relief within the wider parish, beyond the village’s medieval earthworks. [2]
Households in the parish archive
The Representative Church Body Library’s catalogue identifies an 1861 parish census within a combined Drumconrath register. Another volume contains subscribers to a clothing fund in 1859. Baptisms survive from 1799, while later vestry and account books preserve administrative records. The catalogue describes these particular documents; their presence does not imply a complete census of everyone living in the civil parish. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Slane Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.86397, -6.67364
- Mapped area
- 32 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1855 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumcondra. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drumconra or Drumconrath — Topographical Dictionary of Ireland1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Drumconrath Parish Register List,P.0361,10January2018 · Representative Church Body Library
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.