placenamesDerrygrath
Deargráth
Lewis’s 1837 parish account records distinct sources of support for worship and schooling.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Deargráth · Irish · main form · validated name
- Derrygrath · English · main form
Place & story
Building and teaching in the parish
Samuel Lewis dated Derrygrath’s church to 1816 and recorded two different forms of assistance from the Board of First Fruits: an £800 gift and a £400 loan. These were contributions towards its erection, rather than an explicitly stated total building cost. His 1837 account also distinguished several kinds of schooling: parochial schools supported by the incumbent, a girls’ school patronised by Mr. Perry, and a hedge school attended by about a hundred children. Woodrooff, the residence he named for William Perry, had a planted demesne extending beyond Derrygrath into neighbouring parishes. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa West
- Coordinates
- 52.35786, -7.83467
- Mapped area
- 15.34 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2268 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Derrygrath. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Derrygrath — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.