Drumholm
parish in County Donegal, Ireland
Drumholm or Drumhome (Irish: Droim Thuama) is a civil parish in the historical barony of Tirhugh in County Donegal, Ireland. Drumholm (or Ballintra) is also a Catholic parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raphoe and a Church of Ireland parish in the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe. It contains all the land between the large towns of Ballyshannon and Donegal Town, including the small villages of Laghey, Ballintra and Rossnowlagh.
Churches
The Catholic parish historically had three churches: St Bridget's Church, Ballintra; The Chapel of Ease, Laghey and the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Rossnowlagh.
The main church, St Bridget's, was built in 1845 on the outskirts of Ballintra. This church lies in the same area as St Ernan's National School, the new and old parochial houses and St Bridget's Community Centre. The main graveyard is also located adjacent to the front of the church.
The chapel of ease, located about eight kilometres east of Laghey in the townland of Laghey Barr, is no longer used for regular services. The last mass was held in June 2003. The chapel opened in 1941 after the closure of the school which had previously been housed in the building.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Drumholm” as parish in County Donegal, Ireland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as parish in County Donegal, Ireland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2364478. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1845, 2003 and 1941.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Drumholm” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.