placenamesDunboyne
Dún Búinne
Lewis’s parish account records education and building funds beyond the village’s trading life.
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 Búinne · Irish · main form
- Dunboyne · English · main form
Place & story
Public and private classrooms
Samuel Lewis counted about 40 children in Dunboyne parish’s public schools in 1837. Two private schools taught about 120 more. His account treats these as parish figures, distinct from the village population and from the larger population total that included Clonee. [2]
Funding the glebe-house
The glebe-house was built in 1814 with a £300 gift and a £500 loan from the Board of First Fruits. Its three-acre glebe carried a rent of £3 per acre. Lewis also recorded a recent £159 grant for repairs to the parish church, without giving a separate date for that grant. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dunboyne. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dunboyne: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-22. How this page was prepared.