placenamesTuoghcluggin
Tuath Chloigín
The Ordnance Survey name book distinguished two separated portions of the parish.
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
- Tuath Chloigín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tuoghcluggin · English · main form
Place & story
Floodplain and farmland
The Ordnance Survey name book describes Tuoghcluggin as a parish in two separated portions. Much of the first portion’s level ground was liable to flooding from the Dead River; a second portion lay about half a mile farther south. Its townland entries add details of everyday land use: potatoes, corn and flax recur, with wheat also recorded in places. At Cross, peat for fuel was scarce and tenants bought it. These observations concern the nineteenth-century survey landscape, rather than a description of present flood risk or farming practice. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tuoghcluggin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Parish of Tuoghcluggin, Ordnance Survey name book 129, pp. 1683–1684 · Ordnance Survey; digitised copy hosted by Limerick Local Studies
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.