placenamesDuleek Lower
Damhliag Íochtarach
Lewis recorded compensation for the town’s lost parliamentary franchise.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Damhliag Íochtarach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Duleek Lower · English · main form
Place & story
Compensation paid to trustees
Duleek town once had a corporation headed by a portreeve, with officers elected annually. Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account traces its privileges through confirmations of an earlier charter in 1481 and 1686. Parliamentary representation ended at the Union, when the corporation also became extinct in his account. Compensation of £15,000 for the lost electoral privilege went to the trustees of H. Bruen. This payment concerned the borough’s franchise, rather than compensation distributed among the barony’s inhabitants. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Duleek Lower. 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 2017-12-01. How this page was prepared.