placenamesDuleek
Damhliag
The nineteenth-century parish stretched beyond the town to grazing land, quarries and several schools.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Damhliag · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Duleek · English · main form
Place & story
Tillage and limestone
Samuel Lewis's 1837 account describes Duleek as a parish extending across Upper and Lower Duleek baronies. About two-thirds of its land was under tillage, while its eastern portion, including Bellewstown Hill, provided particularly good grazing. Limestone was quarried for construction and agricultural use. A substantial common adjoined the town. These features place the settlement within a wider working landscape of fields, pasture and shared ground. [2]
Flour mills and changing manufacture
Lewis recorded a decline in the manufacture of ticking, a strong woven fabric. Corn and flour milling remained substantial: there was a large mill in the town and another at Beaumont, recently built and fitted with improved machinery. The parish therefore combined an older textile trade with investment in grain processing, serving the surrounding agricultural district. [2]
Schoolrooms at two chapels
The Catholic chapels at Duleek and Bellewstown Hill each had an adjoining schoolroom in 1837. Across the parish, the parochial school and four other public schools taught about 300 children. J. Mathews had provided one of their schoolhouses, while the incumbent helped support the parochial school. Lewis separately counted about thirty children receiving private schooling. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Duleek Upper
- Barony
- Duleek Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.65441, -6.41235
- Logainm ID
- 1858 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Duleek. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Duleek, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.