placenamesDerrylossary
Doire Lasrach
The parish church at Ballinacorbeg combines an early nineteenth-century building with a later national association.
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
- Doire Lasrach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Derrylossary · English · main form
Place & story
The tower above the roofless church
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records Derrylossary’s Church of Ireland church at Ballinacorbeg as a roofless ruin in its 2003 survey. Its three-stage tower retains a battlemented parapet, with the entrance set into a pointed arch on the south side. The nave and transepts have rubble and rendered walls; the window openings had lost their frames and glazing. The inventory dates the building to about 1820. [2]
A burial in the churchyard
The surrounding graveyard contains the burial place of President Erskine Childers, who lived from 1905 to 1974. The architectural inventory notes this association alongside its assessment of the ruined church. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Barony
- Ballinacor North
- Coordinates
- 53.03590, -6.27381
- Mapped area
- 186.02 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2684 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Derrylossary. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Derrylossary Church, Ballinacorbeg: NIAH 16401804, survey 2003 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.