placenamesDerryvullan and Islands
Doire Mhaoláin
Lewis described detached parish lands as well as a schoolhouse given by the Earl of Belmore.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Doire Mhaoláin · Irish · main form
- Derryvullan and Islands · English · main form
Place & story
A parish spread between different roads
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Derryvullen account describes six detached portions, including lands along roads from Enniskillen towards Irvinestown, Tempo and Lisnaskea, and a separate portion on the Maguiresbridge–Florence Court route. Its religious and educational institutions therefore served a dispersed parish. The Earl of Belmore had given the parochial schoolhouse; Lewis also recorded nine private schools teaching about 270 boys and 140 girls. These are historical parish-wide references, rather than figures for Irvinestown alone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Lurg
- Barony
- Clanawley
- Barony
- Tirkennedy
- Coordinates
- 54.42493, -7.64054 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 94.16 km²
- Logainm ID
- 58936 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Derryvullan and Islands. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Derryvullen: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2022-03-10. How this page was prepared.