placenamesTuogh
An Tuath
Lewis’s account records contrasting residences and resources in 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
- An Tuath · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tuath Aosa Ghréine · Irish · main form · historical name
- Tuogh · English · main form
Place & story
A nineteenth-century rural landscape
Samuel Lewis described Tuogh under the names Tough and Tuoragh in 1837. Holdings were generally small, and he reported poverty among the inhabitants. Many cabins stood around the extensive peat ground at Drumsally. Near the Mulcair River, by contrast, Tower Hill was the residence of W. Lloyd within a demesne. A school also stood at Tower Hill, while four private schools elsewhere in the parish taught about a hundred and eighty children altogether. Lewis did not identify Lloyd as the school’s founder. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tuogh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tough or Tuoragh, 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.