placenamesUpperwoods
An Choill Uachtarach
Lewis reported a combined output for the mills at Coolrain and Castletown.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Choill Uachtarach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Upperwoods · English · main form
Place & story
A parish’s grain-processing trade
The flour and oatmeal mills at Cooleraine and Castletown together manufactured at least 25,000 barrels annually, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 Offerlane account. He also recorded petty sessions at both places on alternate Fridays and a dispensary at Cooleraine. The mills formed part of a network of working centres within the parish. The output figure belongs to the mills collectively; it cannot establish the production of a particular surviving mill building. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Upperwoods. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Offerlane: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.