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Recorded forms
Droim Lis· Irish · main form · validated name
Drumlish· English · main form
Place & story
The attempted eviction at Derawley
On 12 January 1881, a court official tried to serve an eviction notice on Thomas Rogers at Derawley, near Drumlish. A crowd prevented him, and supporters arrived from neighbouring parishes. Police reinforcements came from Longford, followed the next day by cavalry. The local heritage society's account identifies poor harvests, unpaid rents and Lord Granard's financial difficulties as the background to this confrontation. Derawley became a focus of the wider Land War because a threatened household drew organised resistance from a much larger community.[2]
People & connections
James McDonnell and Father Conefrey
James McDonnell of Melkagh led the local land agitation. At the confrontation, parish priest Father Tom Conefrey persuaded people carrying farm implements to disarm and secured the withdrawal of police and soldiers; the notice remained unserved. The subsequent campaign involved arrests and further evictions. The heritage society records that the Ladies Land League, parliamentary supporters and private donors helped evicted families meet arrears. Drumlish's commemorative panels place McDonnell, Conefrey and those families within the same struggle over rent, occupation and ownership.[2]
St Mary's on the higher ground
St Mary's Catholic Church was built in 1907 for Canon John Reville, replacing an earlier T-shaped chapel at the Hill Street cemetery. Its elevated position makes it a prominent feature of Drumlish. The cruciform building has round-headed windows, a timber roof with cross-braced trusses and a carved marble altar. Its square tower and spire were probably added later, according to the architectural survey. Renovation in 1969 brought further changes, including work around the vestry. The building and neighbouring presbytery preserve the scale of the parish's early twentieth-century investment.[3]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Drumlish — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
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Drumlish, Longford — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
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Drumlish, Longford — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
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Drumlish, Longford — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
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Drumlish, Longford
Published census settlement populations
931people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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