placenamesCaddy
Cadaigh
Caddy’s former national school and community hall preserve local institutional history, with older church remains a short distance to the south.
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
- Cadaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Caddy · English · main form
Place & story
The former national school
Caddy's small settlement centres on the junction of Caddy Road and Tamlough Road, north of Randalstown. A council appraisal in 2017 recorded the survival of Caddy National School after educational use had ended. The school and community hall formed important public buildings within a small group of houses, with the land falling eastward towards the River Maine. The appraisal did not establish the former school's subsequent use. [2]
The hall and its drumming tradition
Caddy Orange Lodge's own 2011 account dates its warrant to 1 October 1829 and its hall to 1908. It describes the lodge's association with Caddy Fife and Drum and the hall's use for community activities. The festival programme included an exhibition there of banners, drums, photographs and other memorabilia. These records connect the building with both musical practice and the preservation of the lodge's material history. [3]
Nearby Drummaul church remains
South of the settlement lies Drummaul's old burial ground. Saint MacNissi's parish history identifies the surviving church remnants and graveyard near the Caddy and Coolsythe roads. It cites taxation records naming Drummaul church in 1306 and surveys describing it as decayed by the early seventeenth century. This is a separate historic church site near Caddy, rather than a former church within the settlement's central junction. [2] [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Toome Upper
- Civil parish
- Drummaul
- Coordinates
- 54.78221, -6.32118 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 63063 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Caddy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Shaping Our Environment: Caddy settlement appraisal, January 2017, p124 · Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council
- Randalstown Twelfth Festival 2011: Caddy LOL 1124 · Randalstown District LOL 22
- Church History: Drummaul origins · Saint MacNissi’s Parish, Randalstown
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.