placenamesDrumkeeran
George Vaughan’s bequest supported boarding, clothing and education in the Fermanagh parish.
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
- Drumkeeran · English · main form
Place & story
From school to apprenticeship
George Vaughan bequeathed an estate in 1758 to support a school for Protestant children, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Drumkeeran account. By Lewis’s time it produced £1,000 annually, and the school boarded, clothed and educated sixty boys and twenty-four girls under thirteen trustees. Pupils reaching the appropriate age entered apprenticeships with a fee paid to the master. On completing the apprenticeship, each could receive a premium after producing a certificate of good conduct. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumkeeran. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drumkeeran: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2007-12-17. How this page was prepared.