placenamesDerrynoose
Doire Núis
The parish’s other recorded name reflects the location of its Church of Ireland church and glebe-house.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Doire Núis · Irish · main form
- Derrynoose · English · main form
Place & story
Rebuilding at Madden
Samuel Lewis explained that Derrynoose was also called Madden because its Church of Ireland church stood there. His account records rebuilding in 1816 with a £1,000 loan from the Board of First Fruits. A later repair received a separate £157 grant from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. These were different forms of assistance for successive phases of work, rather than a single stated construction cost. [2]
The rector’s house
The glebe-house was also at Madden. Lewis attributed its construction to the incumbent, the Reverend James Jones, and described a fertile glebe of 460 acres. The house and church thus formed a separate parish centre from the older church ruins at Derrynoose. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Derrynoose. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Derrynoose, Derraghnuse, or Madden: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-20. How this page was prepared.