placenamesDungannon Upper
Dún Geanainn Uachtarach
Kildress’s early nineteenth-century services included village schooling and local debt hearings.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Dún Geanainn Uachtarach · Irish · main form
- Dungannon Upper · English · main form
Place & story
Education and local administration
In Kildress parish, Samuel Lewis recorded about 450 children in five public schools in 1837, with roughly 120 more in two private schools. Rev. R. Stewart had contributed £50 and two acres to one public school. At Legnacash, the Manor-Richardson court met on each month’s second Monday to recover debts under forty shillings. These institutions served a parish combining cultivated land with substantial mountain and bog. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dungannon Upper. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kildress: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- St Patrick's Church of Ireland at Kildress illustration: based on a St Patrick's Church of Ireland, Kildress by Kenneth Allen. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2020-09-04. How this page was prepared.