placenamesDrumcannon
Drom Conáin
Lewis distinguishes money supporting local teaching from property not yet available for charitable use.
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
- Drom Conáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Drumcannon · English · main form
Place & story
Gifts with different effects
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Drumcannon account records a school endowed with £10 a year by Mrs. Quinn and also supported by R. P. Ronayne. A second school relied on local subscriptions; together these schools taught about sixty boys and seventy girls. Separately, J. Power of Newtown had left property worth about £3,000 for charitable purposes. Lewis explicitly stated that this bequest had not yet become available, so it cannot be counted as relief already being distributed. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Waterford
- Barony
- Gaultiere
- Barony
- Middlethird
- Coordinates
- 52.17359, -7.14095 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 32.73 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2378 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumcannon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drumcannon: 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.