placenamesDerrybrusk
Doire Broscaidh
Lewis recorded a monthly service and the use of neighbouring parish churches in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Doire Broscaidh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Derrybrusk · English · main form
Place & story
A service on the first Sunday
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account describes Protestant residents of central and southern Derrybrusk attending churches in neighbouring parishes. Within Derrybrusk, worship took place in a schoolhouse on the first Sunday of each month. He separately recorded a school at Ballyreague teaching about fifty children, without identifying it as the service venue. The account preserves a particular arrangement for worship and schooling, rather than evidence that the parish lacked religious activity. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Magherastephana
- Barony
- Tirkennedy
- Coordinates
- 54.28084, -7.53936 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 34.89 km²
- Logainm ID
- 58950 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Derrybrusk. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Derrybrusk: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-01-06. How this page was prepared.