Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DRUMLOMAN, or DRUMLUMNUM

DRUMLOMAN, or DRUMLUMNUM, a parish, in the barony of CLONMAHON, county of CAVAN, and province of ULSTER, 2 ½ miles (E. by N.) from Granard; containing 8007 inhabitants. It comprises, according to to the Ordnance survey, 17,147 ¾ statute acres, of which 1003 are water, including 541 ¼ in Lough Sheelin, 140 ¼ in Lough Gowna, and 121 in Lough Kinale. It is in the diocese of Ardagh, and is a vicarage, forming part of the union of Granard; the rectory is impropriate in the representatives of the late Dean Blundell. The tithes amount to £526. 3. 1., of which £221. 10. 9. is payable to the impropriators, and £304. 12. 3. to the incumbent. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have lately granted £ 161 for repairing the church. The glebe comprises 150 acres, valued at £234.8. per annum. There are four schools, one of which is supported by Lord Farnham, and in which about 900 children are taught; also two private schools, in which are about 170 children. Here was anciently an hospital, the endowments of which were granted by James I. to Sir Edward Moore.


(Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837); Transcription © Derek Rowlinson, 2005-10. Reproduced from LibraryIreland. We are deeply grateful to LibraryIreland for allowing us to use their transcription.)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Drumlumman IrlPar       Clanmahon IrlBarony       Cavan IrlC
Place names: DRUMLOMAN     |     DRUMLOMAN OR DRUMLUMNUM     |     DRUMLUMNUM
Place: Drumlumman

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