placenamesDonard
Dún Ard
Lewis records two schools with different sources of support.
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
- Dún Ard · Irish · main form
- Donard · English · main form
Place & story
A hospital-supported infants’ school
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Donard account distinguishes a parochial school receiving an annual donation from the vicar from an infants’ school supported by Dublin’s Foundling Hospital. The latter taught children sent from that institution. About 150 children attended the two schools together; Lewis does not divide the number between them. A separate Sunday school was also recorded, without an enrolment figure. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.02965, -6.61009
- Mapped area
- 19.47 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2686 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Donard. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Donard: 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.