Frenchpark

Frenchpark
Dún Gar (Irish)
Village
Frenchpark village
Frenchpark village
Frenchpark is located in Ireland
Frenchpark
Frenchpark
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°52′00″N 8°24′00″W / 53.8667°N 8.4°W / 53.8667; -8.4
CountryIreland
ProvinceConnacht
CountyCounty Roscommon
Elevation
82 m (269 ft)
Population454
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid ReferenceM737908

Frenchpark, historically known as Dungar (Irish: Dún Gar, meaning 'the fort of favour'), is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland on the N5 national primary road. It was the home of Douglas Hyde, the first President of Ireland.

The nearby French Park Estate was until 1952 the ancestral seat of the French family, Barons de Freyne. The estate was sold to the Irish Land Commission in the 1950s and was dismantled by the mid-1970s. A historic smokehouse is one of the few remaining legacies of this period.

Frenchpark, winter time
  1. ^ "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Frenchpark". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2018.