placenamesDrumcondra
Droim Conrach
A handball alley and local sporting recollections add a social history to the Meath village also recorded as Drumcondra.
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
- Droim Conrach · Irish · main form
- Drumcondra · English · main form
- Drumconrath · English · main form · local name
Place & story
The handball alley
The architectural inventory dates Drumconrath’s handball alley to around 1910. Its rendered rubble and concrete walls retain iron supports that once held netting. The survey highlights the alley’s central position within the community, preserving a purpose-built place for a sport widely promoted by the Gaelic Athletic Association. [2]
A parish with two football teams
Meath GAA dates Drumconrath’s football club to 1886. It records junior championship victories in 1928, 1963 and 1996. The last of these came against Meath Hill, another club from the same parish. Their shared parish identity therefore did not prevent separate clubs or a championship rivalry. [3]
Nicky Callan’s millennium display
In a 2000 interview, Main Street shopkeeper Nicky Callan recalled assembling a photographic exhibition for that year’s June bank holiday weekend. His own photographs, match programmes and cuttings were supplemented by contributions from neighbours. The display extended beyond football, gathering images from a century of local life in the familiar setting of his shop. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Slane Lower
- Civil parish
- Drumcondra
- Coordinates
- 53.85153, -6.65550
- Mapped area
- 0.76 km²
- Logainm ID
- 37613 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumcondra. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drumcondra handball alley,NIAH14303013 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Drumconrath:club history · Meath GAA
- Drumconrath’s in good Nick,31December2000 · Royal County, interview with Nicky Callan, HoganStand
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-06-09. How this page was prepared.