placenamesDunmurry
Dún Muirígh
The Drumbeg part of Dunmurry developed from a settlement of mills, farms and meeting places.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Dún Muirígh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dunmurry · English · main form
Place & story
A village across parish boundaries
Dunmurry townland historically lay partly in Drumbeg parish and partly in Shankill. The Drumbeg portion’s 1834 valuations list a Presbyterian meeting house, a corn mill and a beetling mill alongside fourteen substantial houses. This combination of agriculture and processing industries helped shape the village before its later suburban growth. [2]
A daughter church for Dunmurry
Church of Ireland residents long attended services at Drumbeg or Derriaghy. In December 1903, a petition from 56 heads of families asked Drumbeg’s select vestry for a church in Dunmurry itself. Saint Colman’s eventually opened as a chapel of ease in 1908, giving the village a local Anglican place of worship. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Belfast Upper
- Civil parish
- Drumbeg
- Coordinates
- 54.54407, -6.02186 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 61693 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dunmurry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Some Observations on Dunmurry’s Past: The Nineteenth-Century Growth of a Linen Village · Robert Common, 1999
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.