placenamesDuniry
Dún Doighre
The school’s institutional history preserves an 1884 enquiry and the careers of two teachers who retired together.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Dún Doighre · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Duniry · English · main form
Place & story
An enquiry about payment
In 1884 teacher John P. Kelleher wrote to the National Education Board’s secretaries asking why the teachers’ money order had not been returned for payment. Duniry National School’s history preserves this detail alongside its explanation that salaries were linked to the number of pupils enrolled each quarter. The letter records a specific payment enquiry, without establishing its eventual resolution. [2]
Micheál and Sarah O’Connell
Micheál Ó Conaill became principal at Duniry in 1905. He married Sarah Lynch, the daughter of a former principal also named Sarah Lynch. The couple taught at the school until both retired on 31 October 1942. The school remembers their work in promoting the Irish language. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Duniry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Duniry National School: School History, nineteenth-century records and1905–1942 teaching history · Duniry National School; school-history material credited to Mary Burke
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.