placenamesDrumraney
Droim Raithne
The map labels and valuation record preserve changing uses of a building that no longer survives.
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
- Droim Raithne · Irish · main form
- Drumraney · English · main form
Place & story
John Carney’s rented house
John Carney leased the property at Drumraney from Alicia O’Connor Malone’s estate at the time of Griffith’s Valuation, when it was valued at £14. The Landed Estates Database notes that the property was described as “in chancery”. It also traces a change in map labels: Drumraney House on the first-edition Ordnance Survey map of 1838 became constabulary barracks on later editions. The building no longer survives, but these records preserve its residential and policing associations without supplying an exact conversion date. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Westmeath
- Barony
- Kilkenny West
- Coordinates
- 53.47120, -7.77160
- Mapped area
- 36.87 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2458 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumraney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drumraney House: property6079 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.