placenamesDrumgooland
Droim Gualann
Lewis recorded the reuse of a broken stone cross in a schoolhouse wall in 1837.
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
- Droim Gualann · Irish · main form
- Drumgooland · English · main form
Place & story
Moving the cross into the wall
Samuel Lewis described a stone cross built into the gable of Drumgooland’s schoolhouse in 1837. It had previously stood in the churchyard, but was thrown down and broken before the late rector incorporated it into the wall. Lewis identified the shaft and cross as porphyry and the plinth as granite. His description records an earlier monument being preserved through reuse, without establishing its original date. [2]
A school beside the old church
Lewis also placed the parochial school beside the ruins of the old church and named the vicar and Miss Beers as its supporters. Elsewhere at Ballyward, C. F. Beers had built and principally supported a school for boys and girls. These were distinct provisions within the parish’s wider network of schools. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Upper, Lower Half
- Coordinates
- 54.28161, -6.04598 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 83.04 km²
- Logainm ID
- 65735 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumgooland. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drumgooland — 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.