placenamesDrishane
An Driseán
Lewis recorded a planned schoolhouse at Coomlegan supported by an earlier bequest.
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
- An Driseán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Drishane · English · main form
Place & story
Land and annual income for a school
Mrs McCarty of Glyn bequeathed two acres and £40 a year for a schoolhouse at Coomlegan in 1811, according to Samuel Lewis. In 1837 he still described the schoolhouse as about to be erected. The bequest and the proposed building therefore belong to different moments: his account does not establish that the school had opened by then. His Drishane parish description also records a parochial school in Millstreet supported by H. Wallis and the vicar. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Coordinates
- 52.05132, -9.12197
- Mapped area
- 133.89 km²
- Logainm ID
- 566 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drishane. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drishane: 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.