placenamesDrumgath
Droim Ga
Lewis recorded several congregations and a building project at Rathfriland.
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 Ga · Irish · main form
- Drumgath · English · main form
Place & story
Meeting-houses in Rathfriland
In 1837 Samuel Lewis recorded a second meeting-house under construction at Rathfriland for Presbyterians connected with the Synod of Ulster, alongside their existing building. He distinguished these from a Seceding Synod meeting-house and separate places of worship for Covenanters, Wesleyan Methodists and the Society of Friends. Within Drumgath parish he also located Catholic chapels at Rathfriland, Barnmeen and Drumgath. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Upper, Upper Half
- Coordinates
- 54.16316, -6.08615 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 65745 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumgath. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drumgath, 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.