placenamesDunlavin
Dún Luáin
Lewis distinguishes the purpose of a charitable legacy from its operation in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Dún Luáin · Irish · main form
- Dunlavin · English · main form
Place & story
Interest intended for apprenticeships
Samuel Lewis recorded that Mr. Powell of Tubber had left £200 about forty years before his 1837 account. The interest was intended to apprentice one Protestant child from Dunlavin parish and another from Tubber. Lewis added that payment had recently been withheld. The £200 was therefore the legacy’s capital, rather than an annual apprenticeship allowance, and the stated purpose does not establish that the benefit was still being paid when he wrote. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wicklow
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Barony
- Talbotstown Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.04542, -6.69498
- Mapped area
- 23.67 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2689 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dunlavin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dunlavan: 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.