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An Drom
Drom’s civil parish appears in educational and ecclesiastical records, while an archive description preserves the history of a ruined castle at Rorardstown.
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
- An Drom · Irish · main form · validated name
- Drom · English · main form
Place & story
Three schools in the pre-Famine parish
Lewis's 1837 entry records one public school at Drom teaching about 180 children and two private schools educating approximately 170 more. His account thus identifies a substantial school population spread among three institutions. It also gives Dromsperane as an alternative parish name and places the community on the Templemore–Cashel road. The school figures belong to that dated parish survey, rather than the village alone. [2]
A link with Cashel Cathedral
The parish's ecclesiastical revenues were divided between different interests. Lewis identifies the Marquess of Ormonde as the holder of the impropriate rectory, while the vicarage contributed to the treasurership of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Cashel. Of the recorded £221 in annual tithes, the larger portion went to the impropriator. Catholic Drom instead formed a district with neighbouring Inch, each containing a chapel. [2]
The castle at Rorardstown Upper
Tipperary Studies catalogues a mid-twentieth-century photograph by Father Philip Fogarty of a surviving castle wall at Rorardstown Upper. Its historical description identifies a Purcell castle there in 1640 and states that the Civil Survey recorded it as ruined in 1656. The dated references preserve a history older than the photographed remnant; the image itself is not reproduced here. [3]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drom. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drom or Dromsperane: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Rorardstown Castle ruins, Drom, catalogue item 8517 · Tipperary Studies, catalogue description of Philip Fogarty photograph
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.