placenamesDrangan
Drongán
Horse-skull fragments recovered during renovation entered the museum collection.
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
- Drongán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Drangan · English · main form
Place & story
Bones in the foundations
Tipperary Museum of Hidden History records that renovation of Drangan’s old school in summer 1993 uncovered horse-skull fragments in the building’s foundations. The lower jaw was missing and the teeth were dislodged; no other parts of the skeleton were found. The museum identifies the building as a former church, built in 1806 and subsequently used as a boys’ school until 1967. It presents the skull as evidence of a deliberate deposit, while acknowledging uncertainty over the circumstances of the animal’s death. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.52076, -7.56812
- Mapped area
- 21.94 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2272 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drangan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drangan Horse Skull · Tipperary Museum of Hidden History
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.