placenamesDrummully
Droim Ailí
Alfred Webb linked Samuel Madden’s Drummully ministry with Philip Skelton and the education of Madden’s sons.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Droim Ailí · Irish · main form
- Drummully · English · main form
Place & story
Teaching and the encouragement of learning
Samuel Madden, the writer remembered as Premium Madden, held a clerical appointment at Drummully near Newtownbutler. Alfred Webb’s biography of 1878 identifies Philip Skelton as his curate there and as tutor to his sons. Madden’s interest in education extended beyond his household: Webb records a proposal encouraging learning at Trinity College in 1731 and a later scheme of quarterly premiums there. That scheme supplied the nickname by which the Drummully clergyman became widely known. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drummully. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Samuel Madden: A Compendium of Irish Biography (1878) · Alfred Webb
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2009-03-09. How this page was prepared.