placenamesLawderdale
Droim Raithin
The Lawderdale name is associated with the Lawder family and their country house at Mough, in the Fenagh district of Leitrim.
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
- Droim Raithin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Lawderdale · English · main form
Place & story
The Lawder family at Mough
The Lawders established several branches in Leitrim and Cavan, with Mough becoming the site of the house known as Lawderdale. University of Galway estate research identifies William Lawder as its owner at Griffith’s Valuation, when the property was assessed at £18. By 1906, James Ormsby Lawder held it and its recorded valuation had risen to £30. These returns trace successive ownership without establishing when particular alterations were made. [2] [3]
A nineteenth-century country house
The national architectural survey dates Lawderdale House to about 1850. Its two-storey main block has a projecting gabled entrance bay, sash windows and a hipped roof. The survey also records modern alterations, so the building’s present outline should not all be assigned to the nineteenth century. The older name Mough remains attached to its townland and appears as the house’s previous name in the survey. [4]
Buildings around the residence
Lawderdale’s surviving estate fabric extends beyond the residence. Two-storey stone outbuildings surround a rear yard, while an eastern range is dated 1875 by the architectural survey. A walled garden lies to the east and a ruined private chapel occupies an adjoining field. Sandstone dressings on the outbuildings mark the attention given to the working buildings as well as to the family house. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Leitrim
- Barony
- Carrigallen
- Civil parish
- Oughteragh
- Coordinates
- 54.02998, -7.80159 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 131546 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lawderdale. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Lawderdale, property 398 · University of Galway, Landed Estates database
- Lawder/Lauder, estate 483 · University of Galway, Landed Estates database
- Lawderdale House, Mough, survey 30925001 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.