placenamesDungourney
Dún Guairne
An agricultural school combined farm work, board and clothing with arrangements for employment.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Dún Guairne · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dungourney · English · main form
Place & story
Fees, farm produce and a leaving gratuity
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes Brookdale’s agricultural school for thirty boys, connected with the Protestant Agricultural Society of Cork and supported by Mr. Ormsby. Pupils received practical agricultural instruction, board and clothing. Each paid £5 a year; farm produce, donations and subscriptions also supported the institution. The committee found situations for boys considered ready to work and paid a separate £5 gratuity. Lewis also records a girls’ establishment under Mrs. Ormsby, boarding and educating thirty-five pupils. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dungourney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dungourney: 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.