placenamesOughteragh
Uachtar Achaidh
Lewis identified a gift, a loan and the incumbent’s contribution to the 1816 building.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Uachtar Achaidh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Oughteragh · English · main form
Place & story
Three sources of finance
Oughteragh’s clergy residence was built in 1816, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. The Board of First Fruits supplied a £100 gift and a £750 loan, which Lewis recorded in the older currency. The building cost £1,089, with the incumbent meeting the remaining expense. Its glebe extended to 407¼ acres, including about sixty acres of mountain pasture, linking the residence with a substantial area of parish land. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Leitrim
- Barony
- Carrigallen
- Coordinates
- 54.07176, -7.83737
- Mapped area
- 88.14 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1488 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Oughteragh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Outragh, Leitrim: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.