placenamesDrinagh
Draighneach
Lewis’s 1837 account distinguishes different sources of school support and their combined attendance.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Draighneach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Drinagh · English · main form
Place & story
A vicar’s support and an annual grant
Samuel Lewis recorded two supported schools in Drinagh parish in 1837. The vicar principally maintained the parochial school, while another received a grant of £26 a year. About eighty children attended these two schools together. Five private schools taught about 330 more. Lewis did not identify the grant’s donor or divide the eighty pupils between the two supported schools, so their individual sizes cannot be recovered from his account. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (W.D.)
- Barony
- Carbery West (E.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.65485, -9.15019
- Mapped area
- 52.2 km²
- Logainm ID
- 565 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drinagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drinagh: 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.