placenamesDelgany
Deilgne
Lewis recorded forms of practical relief alongside schools and a parish library.
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
- Deilgne · Irish · main form
- Delgany · English · main form
Place & story
A shop for relief
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Delgany parish in County Wicklow records a shop supplying people in need with goods at cost price. This was a purchasing arrangement rather than a statement that goods were given away. Two legacies together amounting to £67 10s. had also been left for poor people; Lewis did not name the donors or describe that combined sum as annual income. [2]
Local institutions
The account also mentions a parish library and a dispensary connected with the one at Newtown Mount Kennedy. Subscriptions supported the parochial school and a school at Greystones, while Windgates had a school on Erasmus Smith’s foundation. Lewis placed these schools under the supervision of the Protestant clergyman. His description concerns the wider historical parish, rather than only Delgany village. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Delgany. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Delgany, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.