placenamesDrumballyroney
Droim Bhaile Uí Ruanaí
Lewis distinguishes a land grant carrying rent from the later building subsidy.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Droim Bhaile Uí Ruanaí · Irish · main form
- Drumballyroney · English · main form
Place & story
Two successive provisions
The Countess of Clanwilliam provided Drumballyroney’s twenty-acre glebe in 1820, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. The land remained subject to rent of fifteen shillings per acre. The glebe-house followed in 1821, assisted by a £200 gift and a £300 loan from the Board of First Fruits. These were separate provisions: land made available with a continuing rental obligation, and a house supported through both a grant and repayable finance. Lewis places the parish’s vicarage within a union with Drumgooland. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Upper, Lower Half
- Coordinates
- 54.28246, -6.14704 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 49.93 km²
- Logainm ID
- 65734 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumballyroney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drumballyroney: 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.