placenamesDerrylester
Doire an Leastair
A school beside Saint Patrick’s chapel and a later school opened in 1957 mark different periods of education in Derrylester.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Doire an Leastair · Irish · main form · validated name
- Derrylester · English · main form
Place & story
The chapel-ground school
Barbara Graham and Lynne McKerr’s Killesher schools study identifies an early school in Saint Patrick’s chapel grounds on Tiravalley Road. Their comparison of historic maps and valuation records suggests that it had ceased operating by the mid-nineteenth century. They found no surviving trace in the chapel grounds. The study reports that school fees and the Commissioners of School Lands supported its teaching. [2]
A new school in 1957
A new school opened in Derrylester in 1957. The study connects this opening with the closure of nearby Drumcard’s Crossroads school. That older school stood at the junction of the Old Coach Road and Tiravalley Road; part of its walls was later incorporated into a house. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Clanawley
- Civil parish
- Killesher
- Within
- Derrylester
- Coordinates
- 54.25438, -7.69310 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413359 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Derrylester. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killesher Schools, June 2021 gazetteer, printed pages 7 and 9 · Barbara Graham and Lynne McKerr
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-11. How this page was prepared.