placenamesDonaghadee
Domhnach Daoi
A converted shop provided an early home for Saint Anne’s school and its teaching community.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Domhnach Daoi · Irish · main form
- Donaghadee · English · main form
Place & story
A shop adapted for school use
Marie Duddy’s congregational history records three Mercy Sisters taking up residence in a converted High Street shop and dwelling on 27 September 1931. The ground floor became classrooms, with accommodation above. Saint Anne’s school opened on 4 January 1932. A new primary-school building opened on 23 May 1963, and the Sisters continued educational and pastoral work in Donaghadee until summer 1982. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Ards Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.58930, -5.54770 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 39.04 km²
- Logainm ID
- 65683 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Donaghadee. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Sisters of Mercy, Downpatrick, 3 August 2012 · Marie Duddy rsm; Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.