placenamesOughaval
An Nuachabháil
Lewis recorded new buildings at Thornhill and Drummin that were already too small for their congregations.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Nuachabháil · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Oughaval · English · main form
Place & story
Three chapels in one parish
Oughaval’s Catholic parish contained three chapels in Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. The Westport building had an ornamented frontage; Thornhill and Drummin had newer chapels with slated roofs. Lewis nevertheless judged those two outlying buildings inadequate for their congregations. His description records the limits of accommodation even after investment in new places of worship, while distinguishing the parish’s rural chapels from its town church. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Oughaval. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Aughaval, or Oughaval: 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.