placenamesMyroe
Maigh na Rua
The Myroe Levels combine working farmland and coastal habitats, while Isaac Patton and a recorded telephone kiosk connect the district with wider histories.
The name
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
- Maigh na Rua · Irish · main form · validated name
- Myroe · English · main form
Place & story
Land behind the sea wall
The Myroe Levels are reclaimed farmland protected from Lough Foyle by a sea wall. Their drainage ditches, locally called sheughs, form part of a landscape shared by agriculture and wildlife. The Limavady coastal biodiversity guide identifies the fields and lough shore as winter habitat for whooper and Bewick’s swans, with wigeon, shelduck, teal and great crested grebe also recorded. The land’s agricultural use depends on the drainage and coastal defences that keep it separate from the tidal water. [2]
Isaac Patton and the Seceders
Isaac Patton, a native of Myroe near Limavady, became minister of Ireland’s first Seceder congregation at Lylehill in County Antrim in 1746. Presbyterians there had appealed to Scotland’s Associate Presbytery for preachers five years earlier. His appointment connects Myroe with a movement that developed separately from the main Presbyterian synod, following disputes within the Scottish church. The documented association is Patton’s origin here; his pioneering ministry belonged to Lylehill. [3]
A red kiosk at the post office
The Historic Environment Division recorded a K 6 telephone kiosk beside Myroe Post Office on Seacoast Road. Made by the Carron foundry in Falkirk, it follows Giles Gilbert Scott’s 1935 design. Its removable St Edward’s Crown panel helped the survey date its manufacture to 1955–65, and the kiosk appears on the 1972 Ordnance Survey map. The official entry records it as unlisted, distinguishing its place in everyday communications history from statutory protection. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Derry
- Barony
- Keenaght
- Civil parish
- Tamlaght Finlagan
- Within
- Lomond
- Coordinates
- 55.07705, -6.98221 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1167104 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Myroe. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Limavady Coastal Biodiversity: Myroe Levels · Limavady Borough Council / Causeway Coast and Glens Heritage Trust
- The Story of the Presbyterians in Ulster: The Seceders · Ulster Historical Foundation / Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland
- Myroe Post Office K6 kiosk, HB02/10/039 · Historic Environment Division, Department for Communities
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2015-10-22. How this page was prepared.