placenamesBreaghwy
Bréachmhaigh
Lewis’s account places quarrying, seasonal racing and supported schools alongside the parish’s farming economy.
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
- Bréachmhaigh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Breaghwy · English · main form
Place & story
A quarry and a racecourse
In 1837 Samuel Lewis singled out a quarry on Major Blake’s estate at Fisher Hill for stone suitable for substantial buildings. His account also records a racecourse within Breaghwy parish, with meetings generally held in August. These activities accompanied farming: he described the cultivated land as divided roughly equally between tillage and pasture. [2]
Support for a local school
Lewis named Mrs O’Malley and J. Larminie as supporters of a school at Lightfoot. He distinguished this institution from two other schools, which he recorded as teaching about two hundred boys and one hundred girls. The figures belong to his nineteenth-century survey, rather than a later school register. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Breaghwy. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Breaffy in 1837 from the Lewis Survey · Samuel Lewis; transcription published by Mayo Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.