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Donaghpatrick

Domhnach Phádraig

Saint Patrick’s combines a church of around 1896 with an older tower, preserving two very different periods of building at Donaghpatrick.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of Donaghpatrick Bridge, County Meath.
Illustration of Donaghpatrick Bridge over the River Blackwater, about 0.7 km south of the mapped centre.
Recorded locationDonaghpatrick53.70024° N · 6.75829° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie

The name

domhnachchurch

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

  • Domhnach Phádraig · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Donaghpatrick · English · main form

Place & story

Fuller’s church and the older tower

J. F. Fuller designed Saint Patrick’s Church around 1896, incorporating a surviving medieval tower house at its western end. The tower rises in two stages, with pinnacles and battlements above the newer church. Rock-faced limestone walls, cut-stone dressings and slate roofs distinguish the nineteenth-century work. [2]

Glass, tracery and the entrance

The architectural inventory identifies stained glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Carved limestone tracery fills the pointed windows, while strap hinges decorate the timber entrance door. At the graveyard entrance, octagonal limestone piers frame cast-iron gates, with turnstile steps beside them. These smaller details preserve the craftsmanship of the church’s later rebuilding. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Population centre
County
Meath
Civil parish
Donaghpatrick
Coordinates
53.70024, -6.75829 (approximate)
Logainm ID
1414647 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Donaghpatrick. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Saint Patrick’s Church, Donaghpatrick — NIAH 14401701 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Donaghpatrick Bridge, County Meath illustration: based on a Donaghpatrick Bridge, Donaghpatrick, Co.... by JP. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-12-01. How this page was prepared.