placenamesNarraghmore
An Fhorrach Mhór
Lewis’s 1837 parish description records investment and expanding employment in cotton manufacture.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Fhorrach Mhór · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Narraghmore · English · main form
Place & story
Hand looms and power looms
Leonard Greenham operated cotton manufacture at Inchiquin mills, according to Samuel Lewis’s account of Narraghmore parish. Writing in 1837, Lewis credited Greenham with recent improvements which had increased employment. The work included spinning and weaving, with both hand looms and power looms in use. His description records manufacturing alongside the parish’s farming economy, without giving an opening date, workforce total or production figures. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban West
- Barony
- Kilkea and Moone
- Barony
- Narragh and Reban East
- Coordinates
- 53.02973, -6.83512
- Mapped area
- 49.82 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1213 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Narraghmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Narraghmore: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-04-27. How this page was prepared.