placenamesDyan
An Daighean
Two small houses at Dyan Mill illustrate the connection between rural industry and workers’ housing.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Daighean · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dyan · English · main form
Place & story
Homes beside the mill
Dyan Mill’s complex included two workers’ cottages as well as the main industrial buildings. A conservation case study in the 2004 handbook Traditional Buildings in Ireland records that the mill buildings had been restored first, while the cottages remained in poor condition. They represent the landlord-built housing that could accompany rural mills. [2]
Adapting small houses
Restoration brought modern facilities into the cottages while seeking to retain their character. Neither house originally had an indoor bathroom. The work converted rear-yard structures to utility and storage space and inserted upstairs bathrooms, requiring changes to the stairs. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Lower
- Civil parish
- Aghaloo
- Coordinates
- 54.38387, -6.83011 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414203 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dyan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Traditional Buildings in Ireland: Home Owners Handbook, Dyan Mill Cottages case study, page 100 · Richard Oram and Dawson Stelfox; Mourne Heritage Trust, 2004
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.