placenamesDoneraile
Dún ar Aill
Lewis recorded classrooms and services sharing the town’s institutional buildings.
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
- Dún ar Aill · Irish · main form · validated name
- Doneraile · English · main form
Place & story
Teaching and clothing at the convent
About 400 girls received free instruction at Doneraile’s Presentation convent school in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. They learned plain and ornamental needlework. Miss Goold provided £28 annually for the pupils’ clothing; her separate £82 annual endowment supported the chaplaincy. The two funds served different purposes within the convent’s educational and religious work. [2]
Winter services in the courthouse
The courthouse accommodated the Church of Ireland’s evening services during winter. Methodists also assembled there on alternate Fridays. Lewis’s account records the public building serving congregations as well as legal business. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Doneraile. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Doneraile: 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.