placenamesDrumbo
Droim Bó
Lewis recorded different forms of support for education across the parish in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Droim Bó · Irish · main form
- Drumbo · English · main form
Place & story
Purdysburn’s school and teachers’ homes
Samuel Lewis recorded nearly 600 children in Drumbo’s public schools in 1837. At Purdysburn, Mr Batt had paid for the school building, supported its operation and provided residences for both the master and mistress. Their school had about 150 pupils. That local figure forms part of the parish’s wider school network, rather than describing all its public-school attendance. [2]
An income and an acre
The schoolmaster at Ballymacbrennard received £20 annually from the trustees of Erasmus Smith’s fund, together with an acre given by the Marquess of Downshire. Lewis separately recorded about 400 children across six private schools. Cash income, land and teachers’ accommodation thus appear as distinct forms of educational support in his parish account. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.52918, -5.93760 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 37.84 km²
- Logainm ID
- 65707 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumbo. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drumboe: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.