Most people pronounce Dundrry as Dunderry ,with an "e"in the second syllable.And many including myself have called Dundrry Dun Doire (the fort of the oaks) in Gaelic.It seems certain that this is wrong and that my uncles ,aunts and grandparents were 100% correct in pronouncing it as Dundrry without the "e".
In 1347 a civil dispute was contested in Trim Court concerning lands at Fulpotstown (Philpotstown) near Anderneiri.
It seems certain that this was a corruption of "An doire na Ri" or the King's Wood.In time this transmuted into "Dundrry".So the old boys
were right after all.
This makes sense as there are still a fringe of trees from Dundrry to Joe Clarke's Cross in Fulpotstown.
This gem is from "A History of Dunderry"by Paddy Keely who can remember from his youth people who lived through the famine and one man whose folk memory went back as far as 1597.
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