placenamesDonaghmore
Domhnach Mór
Lewis distinguished a donated schoolhouse from rector-supported teaching and private pay schools.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Domhnach Mór · Irish · main form · validated name
- Donaghmore · English · main form
Place & story
Different arrangements for education
At Garrane in Donaghmore parish, Mr Stowell provided a house for a school teaching about thirty boys and twenty girls, according to Samuel Lewis’s account of 1837. Lewis separately recorded a school supported by the rector with about twenty pupils. Five pay schools taught approximately three hundred boys and 160 girls between them. The donated house was therefore one specific contribution within a parish served by several educational arrangements; the larger figures were not Garrane’s enrolment. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Barony
- Barretts
- Coordinates
- 51.99668, -8.73599
- Mapped area
- 90.26 km²
- Logainm ID
- 563 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Donaghmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Donoughmore: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.