placenamesDoogary
An Dúgharraí
Doogary’s historical spellings and Restoration grants trace the Cavan townland through seventeenth-century land records.
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
- An Dúgharraí · Irish · main form · validated name
- Doogary · English · main form
Place & story
A changing written name
The Placenames Branch identifies Doogary in Kildallan parish with the Dowrie of the 1609 plantation mapping, Dowry in the 1611 patent calendar and Durey in the Down Survey. These are successive documentary forms of the townland’s name. The nineteenth-century namebook records John O’Donovan’s interpretation as a black weir or dam; it is a recorded interpretation, rather than proof that a particular surviving structure supplied the name. [2]
Restoration grants
The land-grant abstracts published by the Irish Record Commission in 1825 list part of Durry, measuring 50 acres and 25 perches, among James Thornton’s lands. A separate grant to John, Viscount Massareene, includes 102 acres and 23 perches in Durey adjoining Aughwoonagh. The Placenames Branch connects these Restoration abstracts with Doogary. The entries describe portions within larger grants, rather than a single transfer of the whole modern townland. [3] [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Tullyhunco
- Civil parish
- Kildallan
- Coordinates
- 54.03760, -7.62818
- Logainm ID
- 1412193 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Doogary. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Doogary4010: historical references · Placenames Branch
- Fifteenth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Records in Ireland,1825,grant abstracts pp138–139 and193–194 · Commissioners of Public Records in Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-08-24. How this page was prepared.