placenamesLoghill
Leamhchoill
Lewis recorded an abandoned attempt to work local coal despite its reported quality.
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
- Leamhchoill · Irish · main form · validated name
- Loghill · English · main form
Place & story
Local coal and imported fuel
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Loughill described five coal strata in the lower, northern part of the parish. Only the uppermost and thinnest had been worked. He judged the extraction inefficient and reported that coal from England and Wales could be imported more cheaply, leading to the local workings being discontinued. His account records a difficulty in making local extraction competitive, even though he praised the coal’s quality. It does not establish the locations of individual pits. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Loghill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Loughill: 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.